|
| CyberDildonics wrote:
| This link says _" Matter lighting device"_ over and over but
| never says what that means and there are no pictures.
| breckenedge wrote:
| Matter is the protocol that's going to replace the vendor-
| specific protocols for Apple, Amazon and Google smart home
| devices.
| marketingLizard wrote:
| What's their objection to using universal, free and open
| protocols? Just standard lack of options to exploit users?
| efitz wrote:
| Uhh, Matter _is_ that protocol.
| detaro wrote:
| _Matter_ is a recent-ish "smart home" protocol:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard)
|
| This apparently allows to have an RPi act like a lamp-type
| device in that protocol, with control over the GPIOs
| garphunkle wrote:
| Matter came around after I left, but I believe it is the same
| as CHIP: * IEEE 802.15.4 (2.4 GHz PHY/MAC) * 6LowPAN (IPv6
| for constrained devies) * Thread (Mesh network layer) * UDP
| or CoAP (CoAP is like http for connectionless networks)
|
| You need a bridge to connect CHIP to the internet (e.g. Apple
| Home). It was cool to route IP packets directly to lightbulbs
| from aws, but we don't bridge the networks in practice and
| all incoming/outgoing traffic goes through the bridge
| application.
| detaro wrote:
| Matter is the protocol running on top of IP, so it runs
| over Ethernet in the example (since the Pi doesn't speak
| 802.15.4)
| dcj4 wrote:
| > This small application
|
| > switch an LED or another device via a relay
|
| > requires around 8GB of disk space
|
| Bit late for april fools'
| anamexis wrote:
| The disk space requirement is to build it yourself from
| scratch.
| efitz wrote:
| I went to the matter web site and followed the instructions
| to install the SDK on a raspberry pi. I didn't measure how
| much space it took but it installed dozens (hundreds?) of
| packages; it is extreme bloatware.
| squarefoot wrote:
| Especially when a much cheaper ESP32 can do the same thing.
|
| https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-matter/en/main/esp32...
| detaro wrote:
| blog post might be slightly better starting point:
| https://ubuntu.com/blog/matter-on-ubuntu-getting-started
| neilv wrote:
| ubuntu.com bad-faith cookie-consent UI. We should start pushing
| back against that, and maybe stop linking sites that do it.
| causality0 wrote:
| A pi seems like a crazy amount of muscle just to toggle a couple
| pins. Not to mention cost. Is this not a job for an ESP32?
| sowbug wrote:
| The project is the IoT equivalent of a blink sketch.
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