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[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Googling didn't reveal any useful answer, did anybody know it has an article about what's the advantage of matter vs mqtt?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

Broad support from the major platforms (Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago

finally!! :D

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So, if I'm invested in zigbee, but want to future proof, I should consider threads/matter, and a hub that talks to both?

Can home assistant do that?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yes if you have a Zigbee and a Thread antenna module connected to your HA instance you can run it as an Zigbee and Matter hub and connect Zigbee and Matter devices. A cheap antenna module is the Sonoff ZBDongle-E. You can flash the firmware of it and turn it into a Thread antenna module. It can also run as a Zigbee and Thread antenna simultaneously, but I never got that working properly. So I just bought two dongles. One for Zigbee and the other for Matter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

Thanks. I'll look into it. Right now I have mainly lights and sockets, through a Lidl zigbee hub, a rebranded Tuya, I believe, but I'm looking into going a bit deeper.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kind of a lazy question, but are any of these protocols substantial over 802.11, especially if you just use p2p/adhoc/mesh modes?

I haven't touched mobile networks in a while so I've forgotten a lot, but iirc the main concern of mesh networks was efficient routing (which has been solved with some cool algorithms) and power efficiency for devices transmitting (again could have sworn 802.11 and even bluetooth can already achieve this).

Zigby particularly stood out as annoying to me as it includes its own 2.4ghz physical layer stack which uses the same range as WiFI, which is already overcrowded as hell and relies on some CSMA/CA magic to make even the most apartment crowded area of APs function decently.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

Zigby particularly stood out as annoying to me as it includes its own 2.4ghz physical layer stack which uses the same range as WiFI, which is already overcrowded as hell and relies on some CSMA/CA magic to make even the most apartment crowded area of APs function decently.

I mean, there isn't really any other choice for unlicensed consumer use? 5GHz is dedicated to WiFi. The sub-GHz bands would be great, as there isn't a need for much bandwidth, but it's a huge mishmash of frequencies that would require many different SKUs per device:

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