sxan comments on IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee)

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

So Thread is a low-power radio, and Matter is the protocol? Does it is the same frequency ranges - 2.4 and 5 GHz? Or does it have a different spectrum? One of the reasons I chose zwave initially was because the standard allows far more devices in the spectrum than ZigBee, and WiFi crowding is already an issue with only all of the phones, tablets, computers, and devices that I couldn't get in zwave.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

It’s still 2.4, but it meshes and extends itself with more devices.

If you have an exceptionally bad RF environment, maybe you will have issues.

But keep in mind that IOT devices are not usually broadcasting in the way WiFi is. The impact of 10 Thread devices is not the same as 10 old school 802.11 devices.

Thread is still better than 2.4ghz WiFi for IOT, and I would say this is true for the vast majority of people. But maybe there is a small percentage who have such an intense RF situation that they will need a different spectrum. But really, it sounds like you are possibly either an outlier, or are misunderstanding the shape of the situation. Lamenting that a phone or tablet can’t use zwave for networking is really strange.

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