Comment by pxtail
14 hours ago
Yep, endless grift with this crap. Bought zigbee gateway? Ooops, out of luck, we are selling only Matter comaptible gadgets now..
14 hours ago
Yep, endless grift with this crap. Bought zigbee gateway? Ooops, out of luck, we are selling only Matter comaptible gadgets now..
Except that many people already have Matter servers with Thread Border Routers in their household. Apple TV, HomePod, Google TV Streamer 4K, various Google Nest Hubs, recent Amazon Echo. Heck, even recent iPhones have a Thread radio, so that they can talk directly to Thread devices [1].
I have a lot of qualms with Threads, such as Thread device internet access through TBRs that do not allow you to disable NAT64 (or even worse, getting globally routable IPv6 addresses in Thread 1.4), but complaining that people have to buy another device is not one.
People are far more likely to have a TBR already than an IKEA Zigbee Hub. And even if they hadn't, they could get any other TBR/Matter Server besides IKEAs. So it's not a great way of selling smart home hubs.
[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/09/18/apple-enables-dir...
What people do not have though is infinite 2.4ghz channels. I have around 500 zigbee devices over two networks, 2.4ghz wifi and I had to manually split the bandwidth to make it stable. Adding yet another network would probably be too much. I doubt I am the only person with a busy 2.4ghz range.
Bought he new Ikea movement detector, didn't see that it wasn't ZigBee anymore. Didn't have any of those devices so had to buy another USB dongle for my home assistant NUV.