cm0002@lemmy.world to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoHome Assistant officially Matterswww.home-assistant.ioexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipkotiautomaatio@lemmini.fi
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minus-squarethehatfox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 days 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-squareBanzai51@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day 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-up2·edit-212 days 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-squareClaude Flammang@dju.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days 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.
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.
@thehatfox
It builds on IPV6, so any medium capable of transporting IPV6 can potentially be used.