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

submitted 4 days ago by deergon@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 60 points 4 days ago (41 children)

Man there are way too many IoT standards. What's the difference between these two? How do they each compare to Matter?

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

An important difference between thread and zigbee/wi-fi I'm not seeing mentioned is that all thread devices automesh in a hub/spoke model as long as they're not battery powered. So your light bulbs, plugs, etc all become extenders and part of a self healing mesh network without a single point of failure. For me it works better than Zigbee for this reason.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 days ago

I exclusively use ZigBee. It automeshes.

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