As far as I can tell a full streaming or casting device class definition has yet to be agreed by the CSA. I suspect if and when the definition is agreed that it will end up as a lowest common denominator effort, at least initially. As Paul says, it's difficult to see what matter would bring to the LMS/squeezebox party in the short to medium term.
Although matter has open source reference apps/firmwares and SDK, the actually implementation of a device that can be used in a real matter deployment requires 3rd party certification at a test house. Otherwise the device cannot be included the ring of trust required by the matter security model. It may be that only businesses or the incorporated commercial arms of the larger community platforms (e.g. NabuCasa for Home Assistant) will be able to get/hold certification. To either use LMS to stream to matter certified devices, or to allow something within a matter fabric to stream to our existing players will likely require some form of certified bridge. We may be dependent upon the willingness of 3rd parties to provide the necessary functionality for us, e.g. Apple may decide to bridge Airplay into a matter fabric so you could stream to any matter connected speaker, likewise Google & Chromecast. Of more immediate use would be if manufacturers of e.g. amplifiers/active speakers included simple matter compatible on/off switching & volume endpoints in their kit (as per the speaker class), it should then be relatively straightforward to link through a home automation platform (e.g. Home Assistant) to request that the end device was turned on or off in sympathy with the player stream, and maybe even control the volume. I think this is a 'wait and see'. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lostboy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=125 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117017 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
