Take your Home Assistant setup to the next level by exposing any device to Matter with the MatterBridge add-on and Home Assistant plugin. In this video, I’ll show you how to use MatterBridge to make your Zigbee, Z-Wave, MQTT, and Wi-Fi devices appear as native Matter accessories in Apple Home, Google Home, and other Matter controllers.
Whether you’re trying to control a Zigbee bulb with a Matter remote like the Flic Duo or link your smart plug into Apple Home, this add-on makes it possible. I’ll walk you through the install, setup, and show real-world examples using Matter-capable remotes like the SwitchBot Hub 3 and Flic LR Hub.
📌 Full walkthrough includes:
• What Matter, Controllers, and Bridges actually are
• How to install the MatterBridge add-on for Home Assistant
• How to configure the plugin and expose specific entities
• How to pair MatterBridge with your favorite Matter controller
• Tips for filtering and labeling your devices
• Real demos with Flic and SwitchBot
💬 Let me know in the comments what you’d expose with MatterBridge!
🔗 Related links, setup commands, and full blog post here:
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Chapters:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:00:22 – Introduction to Matter Plugin
00:00:44 – Welcome and Overview
00:00:57 – Understanding Matter
00:01:41 – Matter Bridge Plugin
00:02:07 – Matter Bridge Add-on for Home Assistant
00:02:31 – Productivity Boost with Magic Mind
00:03:52 – MatterBridge and HomeBridge
00:04:24 – Installing MatterBridge
00:04:39 – Configuring MatterBridge
00:10:15 – Setting up Labels for Devices
00:11:22 – Configuring the Bridge
00:13:17 – Demonstrating MatterBridge in Action
00:14:47 – Conclusion
00:15:13 – Reminder for MagicMind
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My ENTIRE Zigbee2mqtt went down after installation of matter bridge. Evidently, it was trying to use the same port? At least that’s what Claude Code said. Scared me enough that I uninstalled matter bridge and haven’t looked back.
I have a matter BILRESA dual button and 2 Kajplatz light bulbs, but I cannot get the button to turn on my lights all IKEA matter over Thread
So if I do all this will I be able to control a device with my Google Home speakers? I have WeMo devices that lost support and stopped working because Belkin shut down the servers for them. I added them to Home Assistant, but I still can’t control them with my Google Home speaker. If this does that it would be so helpful.
not a valid repo – not supported anymore? or changed to another git repo?
i am still not clear – what is the controller that need to be on HASS or can i install the Matter Brindge with out the controller ?
what controller would you recommend or you are using with your setup ?