cm0002@lemmy.world to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoHome Assistant officially Matterswww.home-assistant.ioexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
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minus-squarethehatfox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThat’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.
minus-squareStrit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoAh, my bad, forgot about the threads thing. :)
minus-squaredesktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoor over wired systems that are older
minus-squareBanzai51@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoWiFi 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…
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoBesides 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.
minus-squareDeez@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoEvery Google, Alexa and Apple hub support 2.4Ghz Wifi and likely can be a Matter controllers, however only a subset of them support Thread.
minus-squareClaude Flammang@dju.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months ago@thehatfox It builds on IPV6, so any medium capable of transporting IPV6 can potentially be used.
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.
Ah, my bad, forgot about the threads thing. :)
or over wired systems that are older
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…
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.
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.
@thehatfox
It builds on IPV6, so any medium capable of transporting IPV6 can potentially be used.