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by pkulak 976 days ago
First Matter vacuum gets my business! I just bought a Matter thermostat on a whim (incentives took the price down to $10) and I'm really impressed. It integrated into Home Assistant in seconds after I scanned a QR code and now the local control is instant and flawless. My last thermostat could only integrate using a really complicated cloud auth process and commands only made it all the way to wherever and back to my house some of the time, and never in under a few seconds.

Yes, Zigbee and ZWave have already done the work that Matter is attempting, but they both conflate the networking architecture with the API. We really do need a pure API that can work over WiFi, or anything else.
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bradstewart 976 days ago
Who makes the thermostat?
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pkulak 975 days ago
It's the new Nest one, which isn't ideal since my old Nest was the one I hated, but it's the only Matter one, so...
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aksss 976 days ago
Which therm did you get? Does it also measure humidity?
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pkulak 975 days ago
The new Nest. Humidity is supported in the Google app, but not through Matter at the moment. No fan control either. I'm hoping that stuff gets added eventually, but I'll be fine even if not.
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