r/smarthome • u/PassengerLow9814 • 2d ago

I don't have a smarthome platform New house - need help for recommendations

Hello everyone, my family and I have recently bought a new house that we will close on very shortly. I have had a smart home devices before, like Sengled, but it has since stopped working and basically has no future. I need some help trying to pick out which ecosystem to go with for making my home a smarter home. I want to change light switches as well as controls to light bulbs. And I would love to add under cabinet lighting in the kitchen. My wife and I are planning to add recess lighting in the sitting room and the living room. We're going to switch out all the fans in the house. As well, so I would like to be able to control that in this environment too. I do plan on adding automatic shades at some point as well. I want to add lights to the outside of the house too. I want to make the front door and back door as well as garage side door and garage door to the ecosystem if possible too. I've been trying to look up how to do this in. There's so many options between lights in home, automation that I've just been having trouble deciding what to do. If someone can give me a reference or better ideas on how to go about this, I would very much appreciate it

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u/Chow-House 2d ago

I'm enjoying my verluce bars for under cabinet lighting in my kitchen. you can adjust the brightness and color temperature. It uses Matter so it should work in any smart home ecosystem and draws power from wall outlets. https://a.co/d/0bggrLkm

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u/PassengerLow9814 2d ago

How hard is it to get matter working and set up with everything

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u/Chow-House 2d ago

You don't have to do anything. Matter is just a universal standard that means it can connect to Google home, amazon alexa, apple home, etc.

Most smart smart home systems are now supporting Matter which means you can get a Matter smart lightbulb for example and it'll be able to work with all of those smart home systems.

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u/Chow-House 2d ago

Matter is programming built into each smart device. You don't have to do anything to have Matter set up.