What is Matter Casting? New AirPlay rival explained
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I’m curious what people’s thoughts are about Matter. This is the first I’m hearing of it.

I’ve been trying to find a way to replace my old Chromecast Ultra (because Google), but I really like having that little cast button show up in apps, even on the phones of guests. But from what I can tell, Google killed this functionality on open alternatives (ex. Raspicast) with a lockdown to the Chromecast spec.

I’m hopeful that Matter could be a way to have my devices cast streams to each other in a standardized way that wouldn’t require me to rely on Google/Apple/Amazon/etc. Maybe even Newpipe could get in on the action?

I don’t know how it will work, or if this “Connected Standards Alliance” (which is apparently used to be the ZigBee Alliance, also news to me) will still have to greenlight specific devices despite it being “open”, which would rule out Newpipe. I would assume the official YouTube apps will be particularly resistant to supporting Matter.

Anyone have any experience here? Has anyone else successfully replaced their media device with something open that also works with the casting button in apps?

  • @[email protected]English
    21•11 months ago

    This is really interesting and an absolute game changer. Hopefully it kills Chromecast. Like others, I only knew of Matter as a home automation consortium, that they’ve worked out a casting open standard and will be pushing that is amazing. I look forward to seeing it adopted. That said, apparently Matter certification is expensive and everything I’ve seen using Thread thus far drops connection a lot so it may take a while.