What’s New in Alexa-Enabled Smart Home
For what's new in the Alexa-enabled smart home program, review the following items. For details about smart home, see What is an Alexa-Enabled Smart Home?
August 2025
- Matter-enabled Echo devices support the Matter 1.4 protocol, defined by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA). For more details, see Understand Smart Home Matter Support.
- To prepare your product for the Works with Alexa (WWA) certification process, review the WWA Certification Readiness Checklist.
- New WWA setup and reliability standards to maintain the WWA badge. For more details, see Maintain WWA Certification.
March 2025
- To maintain WWA certification and the WWA badge, monitor your product to make sure it continues to meet the WWA availability, security, and operational requirements. For more details, see Maintain WWA Certification.
November 2024
- New device support for Matter, including Echo Show 15 (2nd Gen), Echo Show 21, and eero Outdoor 7. For a full list of devices, see Alexa-enabled device support for Matter.
- Matter-enabled Echo devices support new Matter device categories, including air purifiers, air quality sensors, dishwashers, generic buttons, and smoke CO alarms. For more details, see Understand Smart Home Matter Support.
September 2024
- For a new topic about how to use error types and troubleshoot user-perceived errors, see Troubleshooting Guide for Smart Home Skills.
- Clarification on how to use the
timeOfSampleproperty when reporting state. For more details, see Understand State and Change Reporting and property object.
August 2024
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Matter-enabled Echo devices support the Matter 1.3 protocol, defined by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), along with new Matter 1.2 device categories. For more details, see Understand Smart Home Matter Support.
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New eligibility requirements for the Works with Alexa (WWA) badge. For more details, see Works with Alexa Badge Requirements and Introducing New Works with Alexa Requirements.
July 2024
The visibility of device state makes reliable and accurate state reporting key to the user experience. An accurate state depends on smart home skills reporting state and change to Alexa promptly. The following updates provide more guidance on state reporting:
- Example flows for smart locks and color light bulbs. For more details, see Understand State and Change Reporting.
- Clarifications to WWA state and change reporting requirements for skills. For more details, see Works with Alexa Skill Requirements.
June 2024
Matter-enabled Echo devices support the Matter 1.2 protocol, defined by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), along with new device categories. For more details, see Understand Smart Home Matter Support.
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Last updated: Aug 26, 2025