thisnis slightly different (hopefully). Instead of an outsider coming in attempting to make a universal standard, the 14 competing standards are forming a coalition to create one, single universal standard.
That's a function of the smart home platform.
The purpose was to eliminate the existing 3 propriety, incompatible “standards” and give everyone an open standard to use. Seems like a win to me.
Ecobee. Love their products. Have their own cameras, security system.
Why do you think anyone is going to stop supporting their own ecosystem? In Apple's case all they have to do is incorporate Matter support into Siri and their Home app.
It's such a shame Nest was bought by Google, it's such a great thermostat besides the now notorious Wifi chip mess up, I really dislike Google, bought a Nest around the time Google acquired them, didn't know sadly, mine had the infamous wifi chip break down, got a 100% refund after just under 2 years (EU warranty).
I like my ecobee, but wouldn’t say I love it. Have had to work through some issues with them. Also, still can’t change the weather data source, whether to a HomeKit connected thermometer, or to a different web source. The one they use by default is not particularly localized.
Except this one won't replace the existing ones. It'll work on top of them.
No matter what, people will become madder, as their old products don’t matter anymore since they don’t support matter. However, as a matter of fact, some older products may matter more as they’re updated to support matter. What’s the matter with matter? I see no issues with the naming.
Source for this? Last I heard they only promised support for the bridge, which defeats the purpose because you wouldn't be able to mesh the hue stuff with other thread products, only the bridge. I want to be able to use my hue stuff without a bridge at all, since thread eliminates that necessity with it being build into HomePod mini.
