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ripe dock Dec 3, 2025, 5:22 AM

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I just have a few questions about it before I waste my time adding it to Home Assistant for it to be of no purpose.

Will it make devices (that it supports) that normally are cloud-based completely local? E.g. I have a few Tuya/SmartLife bulbs that normally require cloud control. (They previously worked with LocalTuya, but the connection was typically spotty and unstable)
Will I have to have a separate Matter Hub for this to work (latest Amazon Echo, Google Home Max, etc)? Or does it allow Home Assistant to function as a Matter hub since I have a Sonoff Zigbee Controller?

full heron Dec 3, 2025, 8:23 AM

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Are you talking about adding devices to HA through Matter or exposing devices to other systems through the community addon?

ripe dock Dec 4, 2025, 8:00 AM

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Well, I have wifi Tuya lights, and apparently this Matterbridge Addon can expose it to the Matter standard. I guess my question is: Would I be able to use Home Assistant alone (without buying a Matter hub) as a hub to provide local control over the Tuya wifi lights? (I just watched a video on Youtube about setting up Matterbridge and I was left with questions, so I figured I'd ask here)

icy goblet Dec 4, 2025, 8:31 AM

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You cannot use the matter hub to remove the cloud dependency. You only can additionally make it available to other smarthome systems via matter.

full heron Dec 4, 2025, 4:24 PM

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Exactly, communication would flow like this End device -> Other smart home system -> (local Matter IPv6) Home Assistant (Matter Bridge)-> (cloud) Tuya lights, so HA will still talk to Tuya through the cloud

ripe dock Dec 5, 2025, 10:24 AM

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So, then if a person has Home Assistant, doesn't that render Matterbridge redundant? Since Home Assistant + a Matter Hub allows interoperability anyways?

full heron Dec 5, 2025, 1:12 PM

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Note that it's not an official functionality, but a 3rd party addon. The idea is similar to the HomeKit Bridge: To expose devices that do not speak this protocol to other systems. In the case of the HomeKit Bridge make your devices available to Apple Home, in the case of Matter Bridge expose your non Matter devices via Matter to other systems. If your device supports Matter natively there's no point in this, correct

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