Tom Merritt

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2,109 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 12 Aug

Tom Merritt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 15 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 4.

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The FrogPants Studios Ultra Feed! · TMS 3012: Randy McNally · 20 May 2026 podcast

it it hasn't been pull it was not pulling teeth to get them to to create matter. voice-verified

Sounds very godlike. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Uh but it did take a long time for the compatibility to roll out. voice-verified

And I think it was one of those things where they announced that they had agreed to do it, and everybody's like, Great, is it here yet? voice-verified

And they were like, Well, no, because we have to add it to our uh voice-verified

you know, devices and some companies moved faster than others at adding them. voice-verified

Uh one of the best at implementing it, frankly, is IKEA. voice-verified

Uh IKEA now sells all of their smart home stuff as matter compliant. voice-verified

Uh they made it super easy to set up if you have a Samsung hub for your border router. voice-verified

Um but you can set it up with any of them. voice-verified

It's just that they you know they they play even nicer with Samsung, Samsung put a nice voice-verified

Nice little section for IKEA stuff in their app. voice-verified

Um, but yeah, if you buy IKEA stuff and and you've got matter, you can you can set it up really easy. voice-verified

And it's it's one of those things where it just isn't quite ubiquitous enough to tell people like you don't even have to think about it because there might be some stuff still on the shelves that's not matter compliant. voice-verified

Uh, and there might be some quirks where it's like, well, that product category isn't there yet, but it's 90% there. voice-verified

Uh voice-verified

And we are moving quickly within I it's certainly within five years, you'll be able to just buy smart home products and turn them on and work with whatever you got and not have to think about it the way with Bluetooth. voice-verified

You know, you don't have to think about, oh, does my laptop have Bluetooth? voice-verified

Does my phone ha it's just everywhere. voice-verified

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