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praccu 46 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell

I built my own motion activated stairwell lights using an ESP32 and Home Assistant. Works pretty well.

So then I decided to set up some LED strip lights for my office with really nice wireless buttons from IKEA.

I confirmed that the buttons and the lights both were zigbee compatible, but I missed that one supported only Thread and the other only Matter. So now I have two identical antennas, each handling a different protocol.

sgarland 46 days ago [–]

Matter is a communications standard, not a protocol. You can have Matter over Thread, Matter over WiFi, etc.

WRT IKEA, if they’re the Thread-only device, I found one page [0] claiming that some of them can be forced into Zigbee mode.

0: https://automatedhome.com/the-hidden-trick-inside-ikeas-new-...

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