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I built my own motion activated stairwell lights using an ESP32 and Home Assistant. Works pretty well. So then I decided to set up some LED strip lights for my
by praccu 1mo ago
I built my own motion activated stairwell lights using an ESP32 and Home Assistant. Works pretty well.
So then I decided to set up some LED strip lights for my office with really nice wireless buttons from IKEA.
I confirmed that the buttons and the lights both were zigbee compatible, but I missed that one supported only Thread and the other only Matter. So now I have two identical antennas, each handling a different protocol.
- sgarland 1mo agoMatter is a communications standard, not a protocol. You can have Matter over Thread, Matter over WiFi, etc. WRT IKEA, if they’re the Thread-only device, I found one page [0] claiming that some of them can be forced into Zigbee mode. 0: https://automatedhome.com/the-hidden-trick-inside-ikeas-new-matter-over-thread-smart-devices/ https://automatedhome.com/the-hidden-trick-inside-ikeas-new-...