• Strit
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    89 months ago

    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.

    • @thehatfox@lemmy.world
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      339 months ago

      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.

      • @Serinus@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        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.

        • Deez
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          29 months ago

          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.

      • Strit
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        59 months ago

        Ah, my bad, forgot about the threads thing. :)

      • @Banzai51@midwest.social
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        19 months ago

        WiFi is already pretty universal in smart automation systems, Matter doesn’t matter much when the underlying protocol is Wifi. And since 99% of Matter devices are WiFi…

    • fox2263
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      79 months ago

      Matter is the protocol not the method isn’t it? Matter works over thread etc

      • Strit
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        29 months ago

        Forgot that distinction. Thanks for pointing it out to me.