Saw this and thought it might be of interest to folks... Amazon will add Matter over Thread support to Echo and eero | AppleInsider
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Kinda funny that they would use a picture of a gen 3 Echo Dot. That device doesn't support Thread.
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There have been a number of announcements in addition to Amazon's. Here are a couple of others
Eve and GE Lighting
SwitchBot
https://restechtoday.com/switchbots-first-matter-hub-debuts-at-ces/
Here is also info on Home Assistants Matter support
I was personally hoping that Hubitat would surprise us with an announcement but no such luck. 
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That's just Appleinsider just showing that they slightly clueless WRT Alexa. Amazon's actual announcement didn't use that picture.
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Amazon’s implementation is weird. You still have to use a per-product skill, which raises questions about why bother with Matter, and how does one know if the skill uses matter or proprietary WiFi based protocol.
HomeKit just used a simple ID to pair to the Hue hub — no specialized skill. Just choose to add a Matter device, enter the pin, and dine. Seems to me like this is a better way to go.
For me, I really want to see Hubitat support Matter.
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