• Strit
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    91 day 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
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      291 day 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
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        1 day 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.

        • Deez
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          110 hours 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.

      • Strit
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        51 day ago

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

    • Radioactive Butthole
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      41 day ago

      That’s why I avoided ZigBee but my Hue bulbs have had WAY fewer problems than my z-wave stuff over the years, so I’m consisting migrating everything.

      • @foggenbooty
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        51 day ago

        I originally started that way too but ZigBee has been super reliable for me and faster than my Z-wave network. I think it really depends on what devices you have and if one is misbehaving.

    • @fox2263
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      61 day ago

      Matter is the protocol not the method isn’t it? Matter works over thread etc

      • Strit
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        21 day ago

        Forgot that distinction. Thanks for pointing it out to me.