The biggest problem people are having with smart home products is slow and unresponsive devices.
Integrating Matter through yet another hub is not going to make anything fast. Matter only solves the compatibility problem so that device makers only have to build for one system. It’s not going to magically make everything fast and responsive.
Matter is largely based on part of HomeKit. People blame HomeKit when devices are slow to respond but HomeKit is not the problem.
The fastest accessory I have is a Meross switch that does not require a hub. It switches within what must be just a few milliseconds of tapping the button in the Home app on any Apple device in the home, it is essentially instant. HomeKit is not the problem, it is fast!
All the slow to respond devices are connected through hubs and/or relay commands through their own flaky radio network, or worse rely on connecting to server on the other side of the world via the internet!
But Thread will help. And Matter will work locally and not thru the cloud. This should speed things up. Unless I am misunderstanding things.
https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/03/aqara-matter-devices/
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Integrating Matter through yet another hub is not going to make anything fast. Matter only solves the compatibility problem so that device makers only have to build for one system. It’s not going to magically make everything fast and responsive.
Matter is largely based on part of HomeKit. People blame HomeKit when devices are slow to respond but HomeKit is not the problem.
The fastest accessory I have is a Meross switch that does not require a hub. It switches within what must be just a few milliseconds of tapping the button in the Home app on any Apple device in the home, it is essentially instant. HomeKit is not the problem, it is fast!
All the slow to respond devices are connected through hubs and/or relay commands through their own flaky radio network, or worse rely on connecting to server on the other side of the world via the internet!
But Thread will help. And Matter will work locally and not thru the cloud. This should speed things up. Unless I am misunderstanding things.
https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/03/aqara-matter-devices/
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