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Home Assistant officially Matters (www.home-assistant.io)

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Every Google, Alexa and Apple hub support 2.4Ghz Wifi and likely can be a Matter controllers, however only a subset of them support Thread.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, my bad, forgot about the threads thing. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

@thehatfox
It builds on IPV6, so any medium capable of transporting IPV6 can potentially be used.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

WiFi is already pretty universal in smart automation systems, Matter doesn't matter much when the underlying protocol is Wifi. And since 99% of Matter devices are WiFi...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

or over wired systems that are older