A new sensor from the low-cost Chinese IoT maker Aqara shows a way forward out of the home automation mess.
Matter was introduced to solve that problem.I’m reporting to you from the trenches that are the Digital Life Labs, where for the past five or 10 years – it seems like forever – we’ve been fighting a losing war against the Internet of Things.
Regular readers will know about the war to which I refer. For as long as I can remember, we’ve been installing home automation appliances such as lightbulbs, motion sensors, thermostats and Wi-Fi-controlled airconditioners here in the Digital Life Labs, all of which have some sort of IoT technology that allows them to be used by phones, tablets and automation software.
Now, the people who sell you this junk know how poorly it works. Which is why they all got together andinstalled, and to interoperate between different apps and platforms. The device is a simple door and window sensor, that tells a home automation platform such as Apple Home or Home Assistant when a door or window has been opened or closed, so you can trigger some automation such as turning on lights.
Another promise of Matter is that, once you’ve installed a Matter device like a sensor or a light bulb on one platform , you should easily be able to share it with another platform, without reinstallation.That partly worked for us, too. Installing the P2 on Samsung’s SmartThings automation system, we were able to share it with Google Home, where it worked every bit as well as if we had installed it directly on the platform.
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