@Carl I do not understand much of what your wrote.

One thing I still find confusing and upset about is that, my non HomeKit Kasa plugs work fine with Apple Shortcuts. The Kasa logo even shows up on each and light, etc. go on and off when I tap the...

@TyLee Matter = French, tp-link = Hungarian A hub would translate French to Hungarian and Hungarian to French. It would be an intermediary between the systems, allowing control of non Matter stuff....

@Solla-topee But what about a hub? The hub would get and send data via wi-fi to Kasa plugs. But translate from and to the Matter universe. People have already written code that does this. (and that...

@TEHK My guess is we do nothing and Kasa does nothing but some kind of Matter hub will be sold (maybe by various companies now) which integrates all our Alexa, HomeKit, etc. devices in some way. A...

Eh, since tp-link left us waiting/abandonded for HomeKit updates on our Kasa smart plugs blowing in the wind, does this mean Kasa will be Matter capable and we can just get some kind of Zigbee* hub...