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Matter Support arrives for Switchbot Vacuum (blog.switch-bot.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Geologist to c/[email protected]

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[–] Geologist 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's not thread-based matter to the vacuum directly, but matter over wifi using their Hub 2 as a bridge, but I just tested and it works! The vacuum shows up as a binary OnOff plug, toggling it on starts a cleaning session, and off cancels the session and returns the unit to base.

I should note, I had to update my Hub 2 firmware to V2.0-1.2, which also adds the ability to swap out the temperature and humidity sensors to other devices for being a matter bridge, which is nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have a Hub 2 but firmware is 1.5. How did you get 2.0 on yours?

[–] Geologist 3 points 5 months ago

For me, it didn't prompt the upgrade when I went to the firmware page, but it did prompt for it when I went into the matter settings page.

I think Switchbot does slow rollouts, but if it's not available for you yet you can just send them a message in the feedback page of the app and they'll probably be able push the upgrade to you (I've done this a couple of times for previous matter releases).