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Matter vs Zigbee: what is Matter actually replacing?
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Discussion about general home automation ideas and projects, home automation protocols like Z-wave, Zigbee, Matter, etc, and home automation software and hubs like HomeSeer, Home Assistant, OpenHAB, Homey.
Matter standardises the communication. Different manufacturers can report values and controls differently for their bulbs. If the bulbs have matter support your “base station”/server can send the same “turn on/off” to the different bulbs without having code specific for that brand/model. This CAN allow us to skip brand specific bridges and such, or as in the philips hue case. All bulbs are exposed as matter devices through their bridge.
Yeah, so it's more or less what I was thinking. This is something that currently does NOT exist with Zigbee, right? I could have a Zigbee light bulb that speaks in a specific obscure language, whereas all Matter lightbulbs understand and send the same information.