The best smart home devices ensure everything from turning on the lights to adjusting the heating happens automatically, without you having to lift a finger. If you’ve got smart home gadgets from different manufacturers, a voice assistant like Alexa or Google Assistant, or a software framework like Apple’s HomeKit can usually be employed to ensure devices from different smart home manufactures can be controlled from the same app, but that’s not always possible.
One of the notable instances of has always been Google’s Nest thermostats, which are widely regarded as some of the best smart thermostats on the market, and Apple HomeKit. Those using Apple’s smart home ecosystem found themselves unable to link the two, without employing a third-party smart home hub, until now it is.
Google has revealed it will be updating it’s newest Nest Thermostat, along with other Nest-branded devices to support the smart home technology Matter, which is designed to standardize how smart home devices communicate and work together.
Nest smart displays and speakers too
In a blog post, Google,…
