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The downside is that WiFi devices have far worse battery life, and WiFi doesn't really work well for this use case WiFi just isn't meant to have tens of devices
by ars 3y ago
The downside is that WiFi devices have far worse battery life, and WiFi doesn't really work well for this use case WiFi just isn't meant to have tens of devices all competing.
Also, you wrote matter over thread, but the thread is the same as zigbee. From the rest of your post you mean matter over WiFi.
- olalonde 3y agoWhy are you saying that Thread is the same as Zigbee? AFAIK they are competing low-power, wireless mesh standards.
- bmurphy1976 3y agoMy understanding is that Thread is basically Zigbee Next. Better in some ways, can run on most of the same hardware (assuming there's firmware available but not at the same time), and unfortunately not backwards compatible. We'll be stuck having to run both Zigbee and Thread (and wifi, zwave, bluetooth, etc.) from here until eternity.