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_g...
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:
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@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?
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