Home Assistant gains certification, but also a powerful tool for any open source project
  • AnonomousWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    Fantastic, hoping to see more Matter devices, I wonder what a hub will cost to connect HA to Matter

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    Matter sounds neat and all, but it’s still wireless on the 2.4 GHz band, so it will still have the same amount of noise that Zigbee does.

    • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      That’s Thread. Matter is an application layer standard, which currently supports running over WiFi, Ethernet or Thread.

      Matter could run over new wireless systems in the future.

      • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Besides that, Thread is pretty low-bandwidth and low-noise. It’s designed to sip battery life from devices.

        2.4Ghz just allows it to be built into tons of devices without an extra chip. Every Google Hub, Alexa, or Apple hub supports it.

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    6 days ago

    Tried a couple matter devices. Ended up having to create an account with the manufacturer. Was there truly a local option? Who knows. So far I haven’t been impressed.

    • miss phant@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Opposite experience, only 2 Matter devices so far but both working on HA with external network access cut off in my router after I previously had them in Tuya.