Matterbridge + AI: Make Any Device Work With Gladys, Without Writing Code
Hey everyone,
I spent a lot of last week tinkering with Matterbridge, and I had a real "aha" moment I wanted to share: we're going to be able to make any device Matter-compatible — and therefore Gladys-compatible — without writing a single line of code.
A bit of context
I've told you about Matterbridge before: a project that lets you install plugins to bring non-Matter devices into Matter. Today, Matterbridge already lets you use, inside Gladys:
- Somfy shutters
- Shelly devices (generations 1, 2 and 3)
- and soon, Roborock robot vacuums
But Matterbridge is still young, and it doesn't have a plugin for everything.
The problem it solves
In Gladys, I've always taken the approach of building large, tailor-made integrations, spending a lot of time on the user experience and the interface. The trouble is, some of you have very specific needs: niche devices, sometimes no longer even sold. For those products, it's hard to justify the development time of a native integration that would serve only a handful of users.
What if those integrations could simply be Matterbridge plugins, developed by an AI?
The Matterbridge plugin system is well-defined, well-documented, and full of examples. And these integrations often already exist elsewhere in open source (Node-RED, Home Assistant): we can simply ask the AI to translate, say, a Node-RED plugin into a Matterbridge plugin. There's nothing to invent — it's just "translating code"!
What I tested
I built a Matterbridge plugin for my Mitsubishi air conditioner, without writing a single line of code. I show the whole thing here:
And now?
The logical next step: what if we fully automated the creation of Matterbridge plugins? Imagine a "plugin factory", driven by Claude Code, running on a server, that would pick up GitHub tickets and develop plugins with no human intervention.
With a system like that, we could industrialize the development of integrations and close the gap between Gladys and projects like Home Assistant. I genuinely think this is a revolution — and it confirms my decision to invest heavily in Matter this year, because it really is the future of the connected home.
What do you think?