If part of your Matter setup comes through a bridge, Home Assistant's Matter network map has so far shown only the bridge itself. That changes with a frontend pull request by mib1185, reviewed by MindFreeze and merged on 23 October 2026. It went into the development branch, so it should arrive with Home Assistant 2026.11.
Why bridged devices were missing
A Matter bridge, such as the FRITZ!Smart Gateway named in the pull request, does not add each connected device as a separate Matter node. It exposes them as endpoints of its own node. The network topology only lists nodes, so everything behind the bridge never appeared on the map.
Home Assistant Core already registers each bridged endpoint as its own device, with the bridge set as the device it is connected through. The new map takes those devices from the device registry and draws them next to their bridge.
How the map looks now
- A bridge is a separate node on the map. It uses the end device colour, is drawn slightly bigger and shows how many devices it has behind it.
- Bridged devices are hidden by default. Click the bridge icon to expand them, click again to collapse.
- They have their own blue-grey colour and a new "Bridged device" entry in the legend.
- The line between a bridge and its device has no arrow and no signal strength, because it is not a Matter radio link. If the bridge is offline, the line becomes dashed.
- Hovering over a bridged device shows the bridge, manufacturer, model and area.
- You can search for bridged devices, and clicking one opens its device page.
- Disabled devices are left out.
What it means in practice
Until now the map gave no hint of how many devices depended on a single bridge. The count on the bridge node shows that at a glance, and when the bridge drops off the network, the dashed lines show which devices went down with it.