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Not bad. I would like to see more brands start using matter/threads since it would make them a lot easier to integrate in Home Assistant.

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>Ikea is relaunching its smart home line in a move that will make its low-cost products work with other brands, with or without Ikea’s own hub. Starting in January, the Swedish furniture giant will release more than 20 new Matter-over-Thread smart lights, sensors, and remotes with “more new product types and form factors to come,” David Granath of Ikea of Sweden, tells The Verge in an exclusive interview.

Not bad. I would like to see more brands start using matter/threads since it would make them a lot easier to integrate in Home Assistant. Archive: https://archive.today/3qeex From the post: >>Ikea is relaunching its smart home line in a move that will make its low-cost products work with other brands, with or without Ikea’s own hub. Starting in January, the Swedish furniture giant will release more than 20 new Matter-over-Thread smart lights, sensors, and remotes with “more new product types and form factors to come,” David Granath of Ikea of Sweden, tells The Verge in an exclusive interview.

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That's a shame, their zigbee stuff is generally pretty solid and cheap. Matter just seems to be overly complex and can be closed off due to it's ability to operate over WiFi (think calling home) whereas zigbee is just a M2M connection with no IP in the way. I guess the only saving grace here is if you stay in their ecosystem, the hub will operate on both protocols so it should be seamless.

Otherwise, you'll need to get something like a ZBT-1 and flash it to use with home controller devices.

Going to have to pick up a bunch of their $13 smart plugs while they last.

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Supporting matter/threads is cheap if you are using something like HomeAssistant. Even then. I am having to support like 3 different systems. I would like to see things be a little more consolidated so that the hardware ("smart devices") could be setup to use any one or all of the protocols. The hardware is nearly the same (At least for now).

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Yeah I need to add another radio to my HASS setup…

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Matter/threads is a protocol. It works over much of the existing hardware as long as the company is willing to support it.

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I went down into the rabbit hole. Interesting stuff.