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minus-squareStrit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down3·23 days agoMatter sounds neat and all, but it’s still wireless on the 2.4 GHz band, so it will still have the same amount of noise that Zigbee does.
minus-squarethehatfox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·23 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-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-223 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-squareDeez@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoEvery Google, Alexa and Apple hub support 2.4Ghz Wifi and likely can be a Matter controllers, however only a subset of them support Thread.
minus-squareStrit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·23 days agoAh, my bad, forgot about the threads thing. :)
minus-squaredesktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·23 days agoor over wired systems that are older
minus-squarefox2263@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·23 days agoMatter is the protocol not the method isn’t it? Matter works over thread etc
minus-squareStrit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·23 days agoForgot that distinction. Thanks for pointing it out to me.
Matter sounds neat and all, but it’s still wireless on the 2.4 GHz band, so it will still have the same amount of noise that Zigbee does.
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.
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.
Every Google, Alexa and Apple hub support 2.4Ghz Wifi and likely can be a Matter controllers, however only a subset of them support Thread.
Ah, my bad, forgot about the threads thing. :)
or over wired systems that are older
Matter is the protocol not the method isn’t it? Matter works over thread etc
Forgot that distinction. Thanks for pointing it out to me.