I’ve been working on degoogling. i got a fairphone 6 with e/os. its been a great push in the right direction because many google services i previously relied on such as google home dont work.
no worries, ive always wanted to get better with Home Assistant. but devices dont generally advertise if theyre compatable with home assistant. so i got the matter controller for home assistant, great. just arrived yesterday, and tried to add a matter bulb to test it out.
home assistant says i need to be on official android with the home assistant companion app downloaded from the play store, not the fdroid version
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It seems Home Assistant is enforcing a strict whitelist for the Matter Companion App that currently excludes e/OS, likely due to signature verification against a known Google Play certificate rather than a functional limitation. This highlights how ecosystem fragmentation can stall the very interoperability standards like Matter aim to achieve, leaving sideloaded or privacy-focused Android builds in a limbo until the app’s signing logic is decoupled from the official store.