Anyone seen/worked with the new Arduino Nano Matter: https://store.arduino.cc/pages/nano-matter and/or the Matter home automation standard? going to be doing a class on it in January and the Nano Matter’s big feature is that it’s set up to work with this standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard) – I’m still early in my research, but it seems Matter is meant to allow IoT things by companies like Amazon and Google to play nicely together.

This seems good in a way, as it’s supposed to be an open standard. OTOH, I don’t (yet) understand what the advantage is over using a WiFi protocol as that is really, really common already. Also it seems like you need to use certain hubs with it, but maybe we will see things develop over time.