#Matter is dead. Long live #Zigbee and #Zwave for #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant #Homelab!
I gave Matter years of my live, sweat equity and precious real money. No more. This article tells it. I made the decision a couple days ago to dump my devices that require Matter. The battery issues, network fragmentation, latency, … it is all as the article says. Meanwhile, my Zigbee network has scaled nicely, batteries lasting up to 2 years, stable and responsive.
https://www.xda-developers.com/matter-promise-is-a-mess-and-im-going-back-to-zigbee-only-devices/
@meltedcheese interesting, thanks. I'm just starting and so far only have a couple of ZigBee sensors.
Next I'm trying to make sense of energy monitoring plugs (for UK) and looking for ones that do more than let you sample readings, but keep a history and cumulative consumption. This has been leaning me towards Matter devices.
Plugs won't have the battery issue, and I don't expect to have the other issues you have because I eshew big corps and cloud. My system will be all local. Any thoughts?
@happyborg @meltedcheese HA keeps track of my zigbee smart plugs consumption. No need to do on devices
SONOFF S60ZBTPG
@falken Thanks, I understand that. It's a convenience but less resilient so I'm looking into the more resilient cases.