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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by holoduke on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:00PM (#50444653)
But matter is a better network. More efficient and faster. Large zigbee networks with cheap devices often result in ghost devices not responding. Matter even with the cheapest 2 dollar bulbs from AliExpress have zero issues.
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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by microtonal on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:08PM (#50444767)
Matter is not the network layer. You are either talking about Thread (which uses IEEE 802.15.4 like Zigbee) or WiFi. Matter is the application layer protocol.

We have a lot of devices and never have any issues. But yeah, if you put a lot of Tuya Zigbee devices with crappy firmware that flood the network. Similarly if you put a lot of crappy WiFi devices on your network, it's a security nightmare (wise people put them on an isolated VLAN and use WiFi client isolation).

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