Because of course we need another protocol that's compatible with absolutely nothing else.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Yeah, I'm a little disappointed. I was hoping Unifi would do something like release an AP with integrated Thread support so users could benefit from the already pre-positioned APs to then add Thread coverage.
Wonderful. Of course Ubi would go ahead and roll their own. Another competing standard. Comments on the video look much the same. €125 (more with VAT) for a hub is a bad joke.
I've solidified on ZigBee as it's cheap, it gets the job done, it's isolated from other equipment, and it's completely local.
There's just no benefit to me in switching to something else or pushing forward with matter/thread.
I've read 3 words of the summary... "It's a proprietary, [...]" I'm out thanks
The executives at ubiquiti should absolutely get fired for this dumpster fire terrible idea. At the very least their bonuses should be pulled and their pay docked to that of their engineers.
LoRA, Sigfox, NB-IoT, etc... already fill the long range niche with great battery life and are useless for almost all smart homes (outside of agriculture-related stuff or hobby stuff). I guarantee that they stole some of this technology under the hood for their vendor-locked trash. They should have used matter/thread, zwave, or zigbee. I wonder how easily all of their crap is going to get blocked by brick walls?
I use their networking but this is just like their cameras: overpriced garbage with mediocre quality to try to vendor-lock you.
Additional - without compliance to EN50131, the alarm functionality is (commercially) useless in the EU as it won't be accepted by insurers.
I'll stick with good ol' wifi + mqtt.