Yes, the Matter version has Local Routine as well.
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Interesting. The instruction manual that came with my devices says nothing about the Local Routine nor does any of their marketing materials on Amazon. When comparing Zigbee and Matter via their marketing, only the Zigbee explicitly lists the local routine. I might need to do some testing.
Edit: I see that they did add a local routine to the marketing materials. I wonder if it came with an upgraded firmware since mine are from their first batch.
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The printed manual has very little in it--essentially nothing beyond a simple overview, firmware update, and regulatory statements.
I accentually enabled the Local Routine during my testing. If it were configurable, such as disabling the motion requirement, then it might be a useful feature. As it is however, it's in the running for Most Useless Feature Ever.
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I view it as Third Reality trying to minimize people complaining that their motion activated nightlight does not work. The bulk of people that will buy it have a smart home and see it for a variety of different uses. I'm almost positive there will be some folks who buy it without a smart home and just expecting it to work.
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Saw that, but my wife's initial reaction to them ("Oh, those are big, how many are you putting in the house?") probably means that the two-pack was the right choice. The more she notices things the more I get requests to move/remove "ugly" stuff. Her world, I just live in it... 
Def for HA users like us it's a PITA waiting to happen.
I have yet to see either of mine light up on motion, so they must be getting bumped by the rules that are using them frequently enough to meet the 12h requirement. The rules turn them on when any of five exterior doors are opened, and I expect that will happen often enough that I won't need to create any separate rule just to toggle them to keep the local routine off.
My understanding (and love being corrected when I'm wrong) is:
- Lux: You need to create a rule to turn on the light based on just lux, there isn't a built-in setting that does that automagically.
- Motion: The built-in "local routine" will turn on the light from motion if you haven't controlled the light via automation in the last 12 hours.
I don't need any lux readings so I need to find my white tape and cover up the lux sensors on mine...
I'm happy to correct this. 
The local routine incorporates the Lux reading as well. So, the light will automatically turn on with motion if it is dark enough.
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Thanks for that.
One other thing I noticed...the tiny doc that came w/my sensors indicates where the lux sensor is above the motion sensor. The picture initially made me think there would be a visible hole/lense in the housing for the light sensor, but the area above the motion sensor is just blank plastic (aside from the motion sensor), no physical indication of the lux sensor. Assuming it's still there...the only other physical opening is the pinhole on the left side.
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OK, been using my two 3rd Reality night lights now for long enough that I have to come back and say "I love it!" I have the Matter version.
At first I thought one was flaking as it kept turning on when it shouldn't, but (of course) turned out to be operator error, as I had left some changes in an automation that were only supposed to be there for a few minutes while I was testing something. Removed the spurious changes, and voila, perfection on both of my night lights.
I'm have them placed near two exterior doors, and they turn on when any of a group of other exterior doors are open. Keeps us from leaving the house w/doors ajar. It's working just as desired. I'm also not seeing them turn on as night lights (ever) which I don't want, so they must be getting triggered often enough that they don't fall back into night light actions.
These are just great, I wish I had bought the four pack.
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curious as to what firmware version you have on your matter tr night lights
V1.00.51 for mine
Same as @dennypage noted.
My 0030 firmware still fails to update. I don't see anything in the logs when I update. I just get "Command Submitted", and that's it.
Yeah mine came with 0048 and it refuses to update also, I tried both 2.4.0 and 2.3.9. I feel like nothing was fixed, possibly it was made worse. I brought it up in the beta and a few others confirmed but nothing 
I am going to contact Third Reality about it when I get a chance. For mine it seems like the device is responding that it is refusing the OTA (unless the hub is interpreting the response wrong).
Mine says : * firmwareMT: 130D-0000-00000052
Not sure If I ever updated it though ..
trying to find the motion sensor range only getting about 3 to 6 feet before it activates, dont see a power setting to increase/ change its sensitivity in Hubitat zigbee device page, and thoughts
Not sure there is anyway to change that ;(
Maybe try and "reboot it " unplug for a few minutes and try again ?
yea i tried that no difference, got a question out to them. love that handle. will let you all know what they say
I love these little plug ins i also use them for the garage door. when it's up, It's blue when it's down It's green.I also use them for when I arm my alarm at night.So people will know that it's armed. I use the red light for this .
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I also have these devices all over my house. I use them to signal different things in different areas. Like in the bedroom, Red indicates the fireplace is on (so i don't go to sleep with it left on), and yellow means the garage door is open. In the other parts of the house I have blue for leak detected (so people know to find it and open shutoff)
So many uses, not to mention that they work great for hallway motion detection because no battery to constantly worry about.
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