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Matter 1.2 is a big move for the smart home standard (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] APassenger 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Need? No, of course not. But it simplifies an assortment of things and once Matter is more broadly adopted, setting things up fully local will be a massive improvement and future-proofing.

The big players are signaling that they are not making money on voice, so I'm expecting them to start charging or give up (typical Google answer).

A few of my use cases:

Litter robot is in error or offline state for 30 minutes, toggle power
Easing of light intensity and color as sun sets daily
Vacuum when we're gone and it's between allowed hours.
Return vacuum to hub when we return home
Turn on lights so vacuum can "see"
Improved environmental control because I have better presence detection using HA than Nest.
Turn off power for cable box if conditions are met (otherwise it's nightly updates and reboot illuminate the bedroom at 3 AM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I thought litter robot was great, unfortunately the larger of my two cats does not. Unfortunately he decided that he does not like them only AFTER we bought a second one, and AFTER the 90 day trial period expired.