fahim-sabir

joined 1 year ago
[–] fahim-sabir@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Have Switchbot curtain robots on one of our windows. I love them and want to put them on all of our curtains.

My wife hates them. End of project.

[–] fahim-sabir@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

🤣🤣🤣

Completely understand. I’m the “I’m installing the beta update on day 1” then I will moan about how my system has been gimped.

In all honesty, though. The Matter stuff is working beautifully well with HomeKit. It’s opened up a universe of devices that needed a hack like HomeBridge before.

It’s an utter train wreck with Alexa though so have to use traditional skills with that.

I guess someone has to go get the experience so they can improve stuff before people like you start using it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–] fahim-sabir@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Actually Matter works really well. Specifically if you have a HomeKit-centric set up.

I’ve not had a chance to play with Thread yet.

[–] fahim-sabir@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

You have to be careful not to confuse Matter and Thread.

Matter is a protocol which works over multiple mediums including WiFi and Thread, but theoretically over any protocol (Matter over two cans and string is a possibility I guess 🤣).

Thread is meant to be the spiritual successor to Zigbee. Time will tell as to whether it comes good on its promise.

[–] fahim-sabir@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This last bit is important. Very astute and well articulated. I would have never have thought to mention that.

Well done @ankole_watusi 🙏

[–] fahim-sabir@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Still running a pair of HGST DeskStar NAS 7200 drives.

They’ve been solid. It’s a shame you can’t get them anymore.