Comment Mixed feelings (Score 1) 44
Having built two primarily zigbee based home automation networks over the last 10 years, ikea had become indispensable. Their devices were at a reasonable price point and worked really well. You did not need to use their hub either and just had to use any zigbee hub that offered drivers or so form of generic implementation for the device type.
While matter and thread have been around for a couple of years now, I would deem that they are still in their infancy. It is likely that problems that were previously solved are going to reappear.
And given that these are devices that are foreseeably going to be in service for a decade if not more, any new mesh network is going to have to be built up gradually unless someone replaces all of their devices. My network would not work without the meshing as some devices are too far away from the hub to operate. I'll probably need to stock up on some ikea devices if I want to support my existing zigbee network for many more years
While matter and thread have been around for a couple of years now, I would deem that they are still in their infancy. It is likely that problems that were previously solved are going to reappear.
And given that these are devices that are foreseeably going to be in service for a decade if not more, any new mesh network is going to have to be built up gradually unless someone replaces all of their devices. My network would not work without the meshing as some devices are too far away from the hub to operate. I'll probably need to stock up on some ikea devices if I want to support my existing zigbee network for many more years