Matter 1.4 Tries To Set the Smart Home Standard Back On Track (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/24/11/08/2337229/matter-14-tries-to-set-the-smart-home-standard-back-on-track
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/7/24289972/matter-smart-home-standard-1-4-spec-new-features-device-types
> It's been two long years since the [2]launch of Matter -- the one smart home standard designed to rule them all -- and there's been a fair amount of disappointment around a sometimes buggy rollout, slow adoption by companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google, and frustrating setup experiences. However, the launch of the [3]Matter 1.4 specification this week shows some signs that the [4]Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA, the organization behind Matter) is [5]using more sticks and fewer carrots to get the smart home industry coalition to cooperate .
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> The [6]new spec introduces 'enhanced multi-admin,' an improvement on [7]multi-admin -- the much-touted interoperability feature that means your Matter smart light can work in multiple ecosystems simultaneously. It brings a solution for making Thread border routers from different companies play nicely together and introduces a potentially easier way to add Matter infrastructure to homes through Wi-Fi routers and access points. Matter 1.4 also brings some big updates to energy management support, including adding heat pumps, home batteries, and solar panels as Matter device types.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo
[2] https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/22/10/04/2145233/matter-smart-home-standard-officially-launches
[3] https://csa-iot.org/newsroom/matter-1-4-enables-more-capable-smart-homes/
[4] https://csa-iot.org/all-solutions/matter/
[5] https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/7/24289972/matter-smart-home-standard-1-4-spec-new-features-device-types
[6] https://csa-iot.org/developer-resource/specifications-download-request/
[7] https://csa-iot.org/developer-resource/matter-multi-admin-video/
I choose Antimatter (Score:5, Interesting)
The Antimatter protocol is far superior because it protects your privacy. Somebody is going to claim that "anonymized data can be deanonymized" which is true but the Antimatter protocol gets around this by never transmitting any data. Vendors have cost optimized devices that don't transmit the data by removing the circuitry needed to collect and transmit it. What makes these smarter devices any different than dumb devices? Well obviously because they support the Antimatter protocol. ;)
enhanced multi-admin (Score:4, Funny)
I am holding out for the release of enhanced multi-admin pro plus.
Does not solve anything I need solved (Score:4, Informative)
Interoperability between different systems. Systems not owned by be but truying with every part to own me. A single credential storage, and called directory. No thanks. Looks like even more obscuring all the ways my privacy can and will be misused. All this just sounds like trying to grab a piece of still baking new market pie. I'll hold to open source privacy respecting tools, that do what I need.
Re: (Score:2)
The problem I have is needing a special app for WiFi provisioning. Today it was a spa, but these dedicated crapware apps are a pain in the arse. Not needed once the device is on WiFi, but easential until then.
Too late (Score:2)
Tried it, was seriously useless. Now using Zigbee and Hubitat.