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IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee) (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by deergon@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah so far it doesn't matter because zigbee and zwave still work fine.

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it doesn't matter

Hehe.

Anyway, I am also completely on Zigbee. While I like the concept of Matter over Thread, I wouldn't want to switch, because it will start with a too small network to cover a good distance and if I start replacing Zigbee devices, I effectively sabotage that network as well. So my only move would be to replace all Zigbee with Matter/Thread devices. And that seems insane. So I hope I keep getting new Zigbee devices for a while.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't see why you can't keep your Zigbee network and start up a new Thread/Matter one. They should be fine to work together! Your Zigbee stuff will work in 20 years, besides component failure.

[–] Gjoel@mstdn.dk 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@bdonvr @aksdb One zigbee device replaced by a thread device means that one node is removed from the zigbee network, making it smaller. Since it's a mesh network it will become less robust as a result. Likewise, the initial thread network will be very sparsely populated until a sufficient amount of devices has been added to it.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's fair, though you could leave a zigbee router plugged in to bridge things even if you don't really need the device for example a smart plug.

The other disadvantage is that for a zigbee device to control a matter device it will have to route through your home assistant/smart home hub instead of being able to pair a switch directly to lights for example with zigbee.