I’m looking to add Thread/Matter to my existing setup (Pi4 running HA, Sonoff Zigbee controller/Zigbee2MQTT, Zooz Z-wave controller) in order to try out Ikea’s new Matter switches. I have been doing a little bit of reading on Thread and Matter but I’m not sure which controller/hub would be best with my current setup.

It appears that a lot of these hubs include Zigbee and wifi radios, so would that interfere with my current Zigbee controller/network and/or wifi network (Pi is right next to my Wifi router)?

Secondly, is there a feature difference between different controllers? I saw the Aqara M100 as an inexpensive option, but I want to be sure it fully supports the feature of the BILRESA switches as I’d like to use the scroll wheels to control the brightness of my lights. Other options I saw were the Google Nest and Apple 4KTV, but I’d rather not use a Google product and don’t have any Apple products in the house. I don’t have a hard budget, but would of course prefer not to spend money that isn’t necessary

  • SquizzyEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Hold up the ZBT2 will only work as matter or zigbee at a time? Can you use two or do you need to picka protocol to separate out to another controller?

    • ropatrickEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Hi there. Yes, you pick one or the other protocol when you are setting up the device, but it won’t run both simultaneously. You could of course have two devices and run one protocol on each…