Smart homes are great, other than the fact that there are hundreds of devices from dozens of main manufacturers - leading to various incompatibilities and integration issues.
While 'smart hubs' can help with this problem, they can only do so much.
That's why the Matter project is so important, which this video explains. I also cover what 'Thread' is, and why it's technically completely different to Matter.
0:00 Intro
0:55 Communication Protocols
2:00 The (Current) Flaw With Smart Homes
2:45 CHOIP (Matter) To The Rescue..!
3:34 The Elon Musk Speaker
4:26 Enter Thread
5:38 Downsides of Thread
6:10 How Thread and Matter Are Linked
7:04 Why Matter Won't Matter (Much)
8:00 Final Thoughts On Matter
8:42 Wrapping Up
I cover this topic on my blog at:
https://www.smarthomepoint.com/thread-matter-differences-new-video/
Some of the websites I referenced (screenshotted) are:
IEEE - https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-wifi-stinksand-how-to-fix-it#toggle-gdpr
ElectronicProducts - https://www.electronicproducts.com/zigbee-3-0-is-winning-the-iots-low-power-mesh-market/
NanoLeaf - https://press.nanoleaf.me/2022/03/28/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-thread-border-router/
Hubitat - https://hubitat.com/
HomeAssistant - https://www.home-assistant.io/
XKCD - https://xkcd.com/927/
Thanks to the following for sound effect(s):
zerolagtime - https://freesound.org/people/zerolagtime/sounds/29625/
BeezleFM - https://freesound.org/people/BeezleFM/sounds/512135/
#Thread #Matter #SmartHomes