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Re:I was wrong to ignore Zigbee and Z-Wave. They're the best... by wokkel on Monday February 12, 2024 @06:48PM (#39352266)
The main thing that i remembered from thread/matter is that vendors can lock out devices and other users hostile stuff. I sure hope plain zigbee is here to stay as having bigtech decide the brand of my in-wall switches are wrong would truly suck.
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Re:I was wrong to ignore Zigbee and Z-Wave. They're the best... by ssl-3 on Monday February 12, 2024 @08:35PM (#39353226)
How can a vendor "lock out" a device that cannot talk to the outside world?
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Re:I was wrong to ignore Zigbee and Z-Wave. They're the best... by carlhjerpe on Monday February 12, 2024 @11:35PM (#39354471)
MAC address ranges or something would make sense
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Re:I was wrong to ignore Zigbee and Z-Wave. They're the best... by ssl-3 on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @01:58PM (#39361321)
Perhaps so, but if that is what is being suggested then that's not anything that is in any way unique to Matter or Thread.
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