Matter is an exciting new smart home standard, but when it launched it was frequently misunderstood and left a bad first impression with software issues. What is this Matter standard, and is it worth putting in your smart home now?
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:45 What is Matter?
01:50 What’s a Matter Controller?
02:50 Different versions of Matter and device types
04:02 Setting up Matter devices
05:28 Matter Multi-Admin
06:26 Matter and IPv6
07:37 Is using Matter a good idea?
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This did not explain anything.
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So it’s just IPv6 (meaning multicast at some point) over Wi-Fi and then a controller per platform. What’s the difference between that and going with a proper protocol that needs a bridge to automation software such as ZigBee, Insteon, Z-Wave, KNX, etc? At least these form their own layer 1 network, you add the bridge to this network (or modem, controller, orchestrator, whatever it’s called) and you get them all to show. No need to share them one by one and reestablish the whole thing on another platform, nor they are susceptible to Wi-Fi issues, or a switch blocking multicast and thus IPv6 addressing. Also most users can’t write an IPv4 firewall ruleset, much less an IPv6 where devices not only are addressed using SLAAC, even if they weren’t most users don’t have static IPv6 blocks, so what do they do? Allow these things online, there shouldn’t be any need for it. I can’t even use the Home app because it needs MFA on the Apple account linked to it (and an Apple account linked to it in the first place)
We have a different opinion on whether to invest time in this thing, clearly, but nevertheless this was really useful. Thank you.
Too many “it depends”. I don’t have that with zigbee
Why Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Amazon and Google can’t all just agree on one Smart Home protocol is a mystery.