Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Matter 1.2 is a big move for the smart home standard (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i mean, why would you want to live in a home designed exclusively for 3 % of people?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I mean.... having z-wave/zigbee/matter/etc, already puts you in a 1% of the population bucket.....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Im running all matter switches. All eve matter sensors. All matter light. Switchbot matter lock. They need to bring camera somehow and more sensors

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Did Matter 1.2 address the gaps in 1.1 or 1.0? Is there power monitoring on smart plugs? Lighting scenes? Light sensors?

Did CSA take advantage of wifi bandwidth and support cameras and/or video doorbells?

No?

Didn't think so.

Oh, support for robovacs.

And there was an article about jailbreaking vacuums.
https://www.theverge.com/23934731/valetudo-robot-vacuum-hacking

Interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Still no power metering sensors or provision for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What's the matter you ask? Well it matters due to the lack of availability of matter devices. Until there are many, this version update just won't matter. But I do wish it would matter to me. Because I would love to enjoy devices that actually are matter based in my house. And then it just would not matter what devices I have as they would all work no matter who makes them!