# Matter Controller - UPDATE

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/matter-controller-update/102052>\
**Category:** Share Your Nodes\
**Tags:** smarthome\
**Created:** [4 November 2026 09:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/matter-controller-update/102052 "2026-11-04T09:46:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![sammachin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/sammachin/32/5121_2.png) [@sammachin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sammachin)\
**Post date:** [4 November 2026 09:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/matter-controller-update/102052/1 "2026-11-04T09:46:01Z")

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I've published an update to [node-red-matter-controller (node) - Node-RED](https://flows.nodered.org/node/@sammachin/node-red-matter-controller) with some significant improvements from contributors.

Firstly things should be a lot more stable, we're now catching most errors which should avoice node-red being in a restart loop.

Secondly thanks to @hardillb you can now directly commision devices via BLE onto your Thread or WiFi networks, this assumes you're running node-red on hardware with BLE on board, so far we've tested with Raspberry Pis so please feedback on other devices, I suspect this will be beyond the reach for Docker based instances for a while yet.

Finally there's an update to Matter.js 0.17.9 which brings a load of stablity and cluster support improvements that should be carried through.

The next change is to. move to matter.js 0.18.0 which has a brand new controller implementation but I wanted to get something as current as possible out with the old model before i attempt the switch.

As always I'd reccomend taking a backup of your system including the matter storage before attempting this update and also testing on a dev system before deploying to your production home, so as to avoid the wrath of family members 🙂

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**Author:** ![sammachin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/sammachin/32/5121_2.png) [@sammachin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sammachin)\
**Post date:** [4 November 2026 11:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/matter-controller-update/102052/2 "2026-11-04T11:19:05Z")

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If you're also running my node-red-matter-bridge on the same device please make sure you update that to 0.14.2 before trying the ble commisioning in this pacakge otherwise you'll have issues with the shared matter.js environment