@TEHK I was wondering this too, haven't found any official statement yet.

In my country most of the products available at large stores are Tapo though, and there's still no European Kasa wall switch. Maybe they're just waiting to launch new Matter compatible products.

I am not buying another smart home device until I start to see who will support matter. We have a few Kasa devices and will not be buying any more until we know what kind of long term Matter support they will have

@Solla-topee Thanks for the reply on this. From the wording of the post its not clear that you have an understanding of what the Matter standard entails. Essentially from my understanding this is a standard that manufacturers subscribe and adhere to. The standards group that created the Matter standard just publishes the specs.

Anyway, if there are no plans for TP-Link to make Matter compliant devices OR make current WiFi devices compatable with Matter, I can't invest any more in this company's hardware. Not trying to be mean about it, just frank. There is no sense in sinking money with a vendor that has no official plans to comply with what will be the industry-wide standard within the next 12 months.

Maybe TP-Link will add Matter support during 2022. As per Google's Matter Update during Google IO check it out: https://youtu.be/z52p5fT1ihA 

Hope this helps

  @LukeM, Thanks for that! I did a quick scan of the video and TP-Link is referenced as a partner Google has been working with on Matter support 

I am still going to wait and see what happens with our current devices to see if they can or will be upgraded to work with matter.

  @TEHK Ya hopefully TP-Link, Amazon Alexa and Apple will support Matter on all existing TP-Link devices. This way everyone can easily access a TP smart device no matter which OS you happen to be using. I have both OS and platforms in use around my home. :)

  @Solla-topee 

If you are unaware of the significance of this, maybe this link will help you out. Since I can't link it directly, here is a short URL of CNET's article about it: shorturl.at/kpuW5

I certainly hope Kasa/TP-Link doesn't take the 'wait and see' approach and announce their support for MATTER before it becomes too late. I say this as a heavy consumer of Kasa products (> 40 light switches, not including power devices).  If you do not announce support for MATTER in the interim, I expect that those in the know will stop all Kasa purchases, for fear of non-compatability with their current projects.

Because MATTER is backwards-compatible, it will certainly impact products already in release as well as those in development.  I will not be adding any more Kasa devices to any of my homes and projects until there is affirmation from Kasa/TPLink on this. 

I hope you realize that such sentiments and statements those on this thread are not 'threats' to not purchase products ; they are merely declarations of intent, due to lack of support from TP-LINK on the MATTER standard.  It's a standard as crucial as WIFI or USB ; people will simply bypass any and all products that don't follow the standard for fear or integration issues. The current defense that "we expect our own app will manage these devices in the future" will not stand up to scrutiny, as that's the very sentiments that MATTER is designed to do away with.

From a consumer point of view, we feel your pain.  We know this will hurt.  We are telling you this as loyal Kasa customers (for most of us).  Our participation in this forum is evidence of that.  So please don't take our statements of "boycott" as anything other than encouragement for TPLINK to get on board sooner rather than later, for all our sake.