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It's the right approach, but if only it was an open and cross-platform protocol.
by mentalgear 1y ago
It's the right approach, but if only it was an open and cross-platform protocol.
- hn_acc1 1y agoThis. Not buying an Apple device just to set something up.
- macintux 1y agoHomeKit certification doesn't mean that it can only be configured via Apple devices.
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoBut it’s certified to support apple for lan mode and not necessarily something else, right?
- macintux 1y agoI wouldn't recommend picking one that doesn't tell you what tools you can use to configure it, but that's a wise precaution regardless of HomeKit.
- ncallaway 1y agoIsn't that basically what the Matter protocol is?
- section_me 1y agoMatter turned into a cluster fuck of devices. Use you're android phone to provision a device and connect it to your setup, most people use Google Home or homeassistant, smartthings is also an option, maybe others. But it's only to onboard the device for the most part. It'll still connect to your WiFi, give you next to no visibility as to what's going on in a failure and no interface to control it should your controller go down. It's also not very well supported in things like homeassistant, despite what they say.
- Marsymars 1y agoI’ve only got a handful of Matter devices, but haven’t experienced any problems with them. Have had them connected to HomeKit for a year or more, and got around to connecting them to Home Assistant last week - I was actually very impressed at how seamless it was to connect them to Home Assistant (generate pairing code in Apple Home, copy/paste into HA, done) - they’re now all directly connected to both HA and HomeKit and seem entirely functional on both.
- AlexandrB 1y agoI hoped so, I was wildly disappointed. In my experience so far Matter sucks just as much as what came before - unreliable connections, slow transfer, odd compatibility issues. The best IoT devices in my mind are still WiFi with HomeKit support - I can trivially block them at the router to keep them from phoning home.
- 0x457 1y agoMatter is that. However, version support varies by controller: some type of devices supported in one, but not in another. Multi-admin is supported, so that's good.