Matter-SmartHome has an interesting article on optimizing matter over thread performance. I disagree with some of the suggestions in principle, if not in practice. For example, the idea that you shouldn’t run multiple platforms in a single home is directly opposite to the matter mission statement. And many of us do run multiple platforms. But that doesn’t mean the author’s point that multiple platforms can introduce instability is incorrect. It just means that I am annoyed that it is correct.
Anyway, lots of good points here, including the fact that if you have at least one thread border router on ethernet rather than Wi-Fi, your entire network will probably be much more stable.
the M200 can not only function as a Matter Bridge, like nearly all of Aqara’s other hubs, but just as with the M3, it’s also a fully fledged Matter Controller. As a result, it contains a Thread Border Router and of course serves as a Zigbee 3.0 hub as well.
In completely not-IKEA news, I just bought the new Heiman Matter/Thread CO detector HEI_HS720ESM. Unlike their previous Zigbee model on the otherwise exact same hardware, this one works fine on SmartThings (Hub V4). It uses the generic “Matter Sensor” driver, and it shows up in SmartThings Home Monitor “Smoke” as one would expect.
I hadn’t noticed the coin cells before. They are going against trends there. The pricing doesn’t seem particularly appealing either but that is not unexpected.
Chamberlain has exited from the Connectivity Standards Alliance
With Security+ 3.0, the workarounds those controllers developed stopped working. “Any aftermarket controller, such as Ratgdo, Tailwind, Meross, Konnected.io, none of those will work with Security 3.0 devices
Still not listed in IKEA Spain and of course no date yet, but they should be imminent!
