7 Mar
2022
7 Mar
'22
4:09 p.m.
The project was interesting too because the processor used apparently had a lot of
"bugs" that the author needed to work around. I got the impression there was a
misuse of the board, since I can't really believe that a commercial product would have
such fundamental bugs.
Regardless, it looks like Matter runs over WiFi. It seems like LoRa, is another physical
layer that is an alternative to WiFi and is used extensively by IoT devices.
The chips I have use WiFi radios. But they were cheap. It seems like I sould go back and
compare LoRa and WiFi and see what gives.
I found this article, which looks like a good start:
https://predictabledesigns.com/wireless_technologies_bluetooth_wifi_zigbee_…
On another note, perhaps I should consider having more than one google/gmail account and
use one for phones and one for desktop/servers. Or something similar. I use old phones
for all kinds of dedicated things or for apps that I just don't want on my primary
phone. But I don't think there is a limit to the number of google accounts I can
have.
-Gary
On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 10:03:41PM -0800, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
Try privacy badger! It will block a lot of those cross
site cookies
I have some old X10 stuff too! I had an X10 alarm, but then another
company took it over and the base station wasn't actually programmed to
call them!
Did you check out the Lorada? That project looks very cool.
On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 09:51:42AM -0800, Gary wrote:
I bought some ESP8266's a while back and was
going to look into programing them to be part of a WiFi home automation network. I never
really got started. Then I saw an article on Matter and was wondering if I could piggy
back on it to build the devices.
Thanks for all the info. I'm not sure when I'll get to pick this project back
up.
I'm using X-10. Really old stuff, I know. But, when I started, it was pretty new
:). It still works pretty well for lights and heating/cooling. Which is really all I
need. But I do get "ghost" signals that turn on my front porch light at random
times.
I also have an rPi I'm working on to do speach recognition/sphinx3 and
espeak/festival. I had it basically working, but without performing any actions, just
translating to text and then I got busy with other things and its backslided.
I basically don't buy into the IoT model and am not comfortable with google et. al.
listening to me and my girlfriend in front of the fire place in the evening. When we visit
interesting sites, we alway use my phone so she doesn't get hammered with the
resulting ads and I don't need more of that in my life. My phone already feeds me
videos based on things I've viewed on my desktop. It really sucks IMHO, but what are
you going to do.
-Gary
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 05:43:39PM -0800, Shu-Wai Chow wrote:
--
Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
Matter is a Zigbee evolution, and Zigbee is
basically because Apple, Google, et. al were late to the home automation game, saw that
Z-Wave was already there, but didn’t want to pay licenses for Z-Wave. So in typical big
tech fashion, Apple did their own thing in Homekit, Amazon and Google implemented a mix of
Zigbee and Z-wave poorly and without the slickness of Apple. Matter is them saying, “ok,
we can’t topple Z-Wave, so let’s finally work together.”
Matter will probably matter and reign supreme in a few years, but I for now, Z-Wave is
still the safest bet in a mess of an environment.
I currently run a Z-Wave automated home using a Hubitat controller. It mostly works, but
the main problem with Z-Wave is that most devices are either junk or poorly implement the
interface. Your mileage will vary.
On Mar 4, 2022, at 9:06 AM, Gary
<saclug(a)garymcglinn.com> wrote:
I play around with home automation a little. Not that I have that much to automate.
Recently I've come across some kind of new standard that a bunch of the big boys are
supporting called Matter. The documentation is a little sparse, and it looks like
I'll have to download the source and build it to find anything out. I'm wondering
about the hardware side. It seems like it is just anything with a WiFi radio that can run
the right code, but I'm still exploring.
Has anyone played with this?
-Gary
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