• APassenger@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Matter. Get it adopted. Buy and implement only Matter devices in the future.

    Needs a year or two, but if we can get that tech widespread, this cloud stuff will be less essential.

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      Buy Zigbee in cases where there isn’t a Matter alternative. It’s not quite as interoperable as Matter but it’s fully offline once setup (and some newer coordinators have dual zigbee/Matter support). Avoid cloud connected WiFi devices like the plague.

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      1 year ago

      Not sure why I’d want some private cloud system when HA can work on its own. I’d go zigbee, which doesn’t require any cloud.

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        1 year ago

        Matter works with HA and HA works with matter, keeping it local and easier (is the hope).

        Edit to add: it’s not really a private cloud. It’s a mesh/WiFi network that transfers data based on the item type.

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      Or, you know, just don’t buy smart devices. They are pointless wastes of money and don’t solve any problem but the imaginary problem their marketing made you think actually exists.

      But they do create a whole lot of actual problems by having them in your home, and on your network.

      Which is better than just supporting something that google, amazon, and apple have developed. Which makes it inherently suspect and suspicious, and anyone with a brain should have an intense primal need to avoid anything being pushed by those 3 individually… much less working together as one.

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        Matter, if implemented correctly, would save them all money and allow the privacy conscious to drop the cloud.

        They are losing money on their voice assistants, so they want out of the business of being the voice part of the central hub.

        They’ll find ways to monetize the users who are less privacy concerned, but that’s not me and I think it’s not a lot of people who are here.

        Ediit: I didn’t downvote you. I’m here for discourse and have found down votes don’t help that.