Smart Homes

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/314403

The fight for who will own your Thread mesh network is creating an even more fractured smart home.

The massive growth of the smart home market has led to problems with competing standards and protocols. The World Economic Forum estimates that more than 130 million households owned a smart home device in 2022. These issues have grown exponentially. Matter solves these problems by establishing a new smart home standard that allows smart home devices to be controlled by one app, improves security, and creates more reliable connections. Today, the best smart home devices that support Matter include devices from Google, Apple, and Amazon.

But what exactly is Matter, and how does it work? This article covers everything you need to know about Matter, including how it could help you build a security system with smart home devices.

While my home is admittedly a lot smarter now, it was a hard-fought battle. With dozens of standards, brands, and even communication protocols, getting a cohesive experience is hard — even for a tech enthusiast.

While I can’t distill all of my journeys, I can save you from having to go down some particularly treacherous rabbit holes. To that end, here are five lessons I learned from building my own smart home that might help you build your own automated paradise.

Found this while looking for something else, but thought I'd throw it in. What words of wisdom can you home automation veterans offer to help those just starting out?

But between December 2022 and August 2025 Hive will switch off the functionality for the following devices:

• Boiler IQ wifi - this will stop working on 1 August 2025.
• Hive camera - this will stop working on 1 August 2023.
• Hive HomeShield - this will stop working on 1 August 2025.
• Hive View indoor camera - this will stop functioning on 1 August 2025.
• Hive View outdoor camera - this will cease to work on 1 August 2025.
• Hub 360 sound detection - this will stop working on 31 December 2022.
• Leak sensor - this will stop working on 1 September 2023.
• Nano 1 Hub - This will stop working on 1 August 2023.

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Hive told us it WILL provide refunds on devices for those on subscription plans, but only if the item is faulty. Hive said it will refund these customers any time before 2025.

Those without app-subscriptions can also get a refund on their device cost - but only if it is faulty and was purchased in the past year.

The post that inspired this community.