Matter Bridge in Home Assistant Part1 - All

I'm looking at using Matter with Home Assistant (to use with Alexa/Google/Apple) and I'm a bit confused.

 

First I search for "matterbridge" and the first result(https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge) appears to be a chat bridge so this appears to be an unrelated project.

 

matter.js

https://github.com/matter-js/matter.js

 

matterbridge by Luligu

Further research found another project called "matterbridge"(https://github.com/Luligu/matterbridge/) by Luligu described as a "Matterbridge plugin manager for Matter" further described as a "matter.js plugin manager"

a project that allows you to share all your Matter devices with other Matter controllers without re-pairing and sharing them invidiously. Matter Bridge is based on matter.js(https://github.com/matter-js/matter.js), the TypeScript/JavaScript implementation of the complete Matter protocol.

detail:https://smarthomescene.com/guides/exposing-home-assistant-entities-as-matter-devices/

 

home-assistant-matter-hub by t0bst4r

Yet another integration recently renamed to "home-assistant-matter-hub" (https://github.com/t0bst4r/home-assistant-matter-hub)(formerly called "matterbridge-home-assistant") by t0bst4r.

 

Aproject that designed to effortlessly expose entities as Matter devices.  it does require Home Assistant OS installed and running.

 

examples.

Let’s say you have a Zigbee device that’s not going to get Matter support. It works with Home Assistant either through ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT, but it cannot be shared between Matter controllers. Even using the proprietary brand hub will not allow you to share it as a Matter device, as the company chose not to include your particular model in the Matter-supported devices.

 

Well, with the Matter Bridge addon you can expose it as Matter device in any ecosystem you want to. This process does not care which communication protocol this device uses, as Home Assistant acts as a bridge between your Zigbee device and other Matter controllers.

 

 

 

Finally, there is something built-in (?) called "Matter (BETA)".

The Matter integration is fairly straightforward.

 

Can somebody explain the difference (or relationship) between these? My goal is to allow Alexa/Google/Apple to control my Home Assistant devices using voice control.