Apple, Amazon and Google, oh my! Why the Matter Protocol Matters

Screw this team-up bull. What we need are fed­er­al stan­dards. These com­mu­ni­ca­tion lan­guages need to get up to the basic stan­dards of wall out­lets. Apple’s already get­ting in trou­ble for their con­stant chang­ing of their charg­ers, and we need to spread that to all meth­ods that elec­tron­ics interact.

As some­one that has a lot of smart home devices, this sounds like a step in the right direc­tion. Cur­rent­ly the “ Smart home” is pret­ty stu­pid. Ex.. My neigh­bor just asked me what smart door lock he should pur­chase and I couldn’t give him a strait answer. The prob­lem most­ly being con­nec­tiv­i­ty. he’s not tech savvy, so should I rec­om­mend him a Blue­tooth, WiFi, Zig­bee or Z wave lock and what kind of hub to con­nect it too, and if it needs one. Does he need it to work with Alexa, Google, and/or Siri? I cur­rent­ly have a hodge­podge of devices on WiFi, Z‑wave , and Zig­bee that require pro­pri­etary hubs and apps to make them work. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion between devices is spot­ty at best. Exam­ples — Nest ther­mo­stat can’t con­nect to a Z wave door sen­sor to turn off AC if the door is opened for a longer peri­od of time. Siri can’t work with Sam­sung Smarthings. Schlage door lock can’t talk to Hue lights. Etc…. I’ve been using Smart­Things to piece togeth­er a smarthome for about 5 years, but it’s func­tion­al­i­ty is lim­it­ed, it’s app is over­ly com­pli­cat­ed, and some­times it’s just miss­ing key fea­tures ( like chang­ing door lock codes). Hope this new stan­dard can address some of these issues.

What hap­pens to Home­bridge and Hoobs after Matter?

Typ­i­cal shill, rhetoric spew as is cus­tom­ary at CNET. What about actu­al­ly test­ing it and telling us how it works. Open source is good but only if the license allows fork­ing should the big evil corps ruin it.

Is there a list or site of Mat­ter based prod­ucts / Apps?

Not before wifi7 we Will get a well con­nect­ed Home until then it does not Matter

I love see­ing a “stan­dard” in smart homes.…
to me its like the old records, 8 tracks, cas­settes, and CDs
Just think if say CDs did­nt have a stan­dard.… then each CD would have to make a CD for Sony play­ers.… Apple play­ers.… Ama­zon play­ers.… etc.…etc…etc… which would be nev­er end­ing and very cost­ly… this way, you buy what prod­uct you like, and any oth­er prod­uct you pur­chase will work 100% with any prod­ucts you have. Its a win, win for customers

Sounds good, I am on the Apple Ecosys­tem, my par­ents have since intro­duced Alexa into the house, Wouldn’t it be great if I could drop in to my Mum’s dot from the lounge where the Home­Pod Mini is, it’s about time you could buy a smart home device with­out hav­ing to wor­ry whether it’s Home­K­it com­pat­i­ble or rather works with Alexa, like when Hive mar­ried up with Alexa but remained incom­pat­i­ble with Siri

IKEA for some rea­son? Hel­lo? Tråd­fri smart home stuff and smart speakers.

Mat­ter does­n’t mat­ter — at all. Rea­son­able peo­ple won’t leave con­trol over their devices to inse­cure waves. After 23 years of oper­a­tion 802.11* has yet to make a secure pro­to­col. Not even the lat­est ver­sion, WPA3 is secure but was cracked three weeks after its first release. What we need is a wired sys­tem where the plug itself comes with a data chan­nel — prefer­ably an acrylic solu­tion. Irre­spon­si­ble peo­ple will still be able to con­trol their devices with their smart­phones through a cen­tral wifi unit, but we the respon­si­ble peo­ple will have a decou­pled remote con­trol direct­ly wired into the mains.
Thus, the pro­to­col is of minor impor­tance. The first thing we need is com­plete­ly new wiring of homes, start­ing with new builds and work­ing our way down. In hun­dred years will the smart home idea be adopt­ed by the vast major­i­ty. Any­thing less goes into the cat­e­go­ry of toys for irre­spon­si­ble morons. While at it, it’s about the time that the whole world adopts 200/400V direct cur­rent and a sin­gle type of con­nec­tor. Prefer­ably the type L plug in a 25A ver­sion where all pins are on the same row. Data via light through acrylic can be fit­ted into the neu­tral pin. The plug fits both ways. Both 200 and 400 V devices will need polar­i­ty con­trol. Those who don’t need 400 V can have both L’s con­nect­ed to the same poten­tial and only one leader. This would be a rea­son­able sys­tem that cov­ers all needs from light, through heat­ing to charg­ing cars. The data chan­nel is of course not only for remote con­trol but where the nego­ti­a­tion takes place for how much pow­er a device will be allowed to draw. In our moron­ic sys­tem today you will break the cir­cuit if you con­nect two or more devices that draw the max­i­mum amount. 

Btw, It is just sad that Apple, Ama­zon, Google, and Sam­sung need­ed 12 years to real­ize that the mar­ket wants an open pro­to­col standard. 

Any­ways, the world does­n’t need a pathet­ic remote con­trol for its elec­tric devices. The world needs a full reha­bil­i­ta­tion of the mains, start­ing with new builds. There are no wor­ries about back­ward com­pat­i­bil­i­ty. Today we’ve got inte­grat­ed cir­cuits capa­ble of adjust­ing DC to DC over a range from 36 to 750 Volt regard­less of polar­i­ty. This is not a tech­ni­cal issue, but a ques­tion about will. Amer­i­ca should be par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in such an upgrade con­sid­er­ing they’ve got the most dan­ger­ous sys­tem today. Kids need to be taught not to touch plugs because they are moron­i­cal­ly dan­ger­ous. The same goes for the British variant.

Sam­sung, Ama­zon, and Google are the real trio

I’m curi­ous how deep these inte­gra­tions will be with mat­ter. Will this help with security?

How does this video have so lit­tle views?!?!? This­bis thr biggest f‑ing news in a to long!