I just learned that the Eve Energy smart plugs transmit energy consumption information via Matter. I didn’t think energy consumption information was supported in Matter yet, but it is.
This makes them incredible to use with the Home Assistant Energy dashboard.
Even tho I was hesitant for a while, I took the leap to using the Matter beta Home Assistant integration and no issues so far.
- from this link
Granted the article is almost a year old. But I just didn’t realize that Matter now supports energy monitoring. Somehow I just missed that news.
It looks like it got added in the protocol V1.3 and then further refined in 1.4: https://csa-iot.org/newsroom/matter-1-4-enables-more-capable-smart-homes/
Matter itself is different from data passing through HA.