All of this can be done with ZigBee. It is open and local mesh over 2.4ghz.
You need to buy the zigbee adapter. With matter you can use just regular wifi cards
Readit Newssamoit commented on The Connectivity Standards Alliance Announces Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi csa-iot.org/newsroom/the-... · Posted by u/paulatreides
I mean you can already do exactly that with zigbee after buying a zigbee usb connector which are extremely cheap.
I know because that’s what I have been doing for the past five years.
But to be fair my setup is now mostly IKEA so I guess I could go back to a bridge and stop having to maintain my stuff at some point.
So you need to buy and adapter. With Matter you don't, you can use your regular wifi cards. No new "adapter" needed.
No need for specific hardware
Meet zigbee2mqtt and ZHA. You only need a cheap USB adapter as a Zigbee coordinator and you are ready to go.
So you need to buy and adapter. With Matter you don't, you can use your regular wifi cards. No new "adapter" needed.
> the facto
*de facto
Any reason you prefer Matter rather than Zigbee? Zigbee has been a thing far longer than Matter, so I don't think the "one more standard" criticism is valid here.
It is supposedly an open source standard that do not requires internet connection to work, and can use regular wifi (2,4ghz) networks as a means to connect devices so you do not need to buy a hub for them. You can create your own hub with a mini pc for instance with a regular wifi card. No need for specific hardware
I hope Matter becomes the "the facto" standard... now we have several more "standars"
I also have problems with Firefox. I guess it is something Google related...
samoit commented on DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025 perl.com/article/duckduck... · Posted by u/oalders
Started with Perl, always loved it, never understood the hate. I feel like after Perl you can write in any language. I'll never forget writing Python the first time and searching for a Data::Dumper alternative...
I think that "hate" comes from the "write once" language fact. Perl is quite cryptic to read... even if it is your own script. That's why raku appeared
samoit commented on Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments devbox.ar0.eu/... · Posted by u/TheRealBadDev
There is also Devpod with a nice UI.
samoit commented on JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language infoworld.com/article/402... · Posted by u/pjmlp
samoit commented on Windows 11 Insider Preview Build blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/taubek
That's exactly the reason, so you can test in advance.
(Unless there's some new feature you're really looking forward to. But I'm not aware of many of them.)
To me these movements always remind me of "free testing". If they want testers, pay for them.