The Vergecast Matter Holiday Spec-tacular

Happy holidays! ‘Tis nan play for trimming trees, hanging lights, baking cookies... and spending 2 weeks astatine location trying to fig retired why you can’t get nan lights to automatically recreation connected astatine night, and which of those stupid bulbs is causing each nan remainder to not work. Truly nan astir awesome clip of nan year.

Every twelvemonth connected The Vergecast, we for illustration to get into nan picnic reside by getting dense into nan weeds connected 1 of nan astir important specs, protocols, aliases systems that we each brushwood each day. This year, for our yearly Holiday Spec-tacular, we’re taking connected everyone’s favourite kinda-sorta functional smart location protocol: Matter.

Matter is expected to beryllium nan point that makes nan smart location work, that allows everything from your lights to your fridge to your vacuum cleaner to seamlessly connect. In reality, it is, well, not that. But it mightiness beryllium connected its way! We statesman nan show pinch Nilay, David, and The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy talking astir nan authorities of Matter, and wherever nan smart location has made strides — and made mistakes — this year. We too talk astir Thread. A lot. More than we expected.

After that, nan trio competes successful a crippled to spot who understands nan complicated, overlapping motto of nan Matter beingness best. (It’s a tight race, but nan correct personification wins successful nan end.) And finally, Paulus Schoutsen, nan creator of Home Assistant and president of nan Open Home Foundation, joins nan show to talk astir what it’s for illustration to activity pinch Matter and whether we’re ever going to get nan smart location of our dreams.

This is our past conception of nan twelvemonth — we’ll beryllium backmost pinch a unrecorded conception astatine CES, and if you’re going to beryllium successful Vegas we dream you’ll recreation subordinate us! In nan meantime, personification a awesome holiday, and whitethorn each your smart lights ever beryllium nan correct color.

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See you successful 2025!