This still feels like:
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Probably the same reason video is always hard, there's 7 million codecs. ONVIF has specifications/profiles for management, functionality, and codecs (S and T): * https://www.onvif.org/profiles-add-ons-specifications/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONVIF
Sure but none of it seems to work for battery powered cameras which is a giant missing piece.
https://github.com/OpenIPC/firmware
You can get onvif-compliant firmware for some of those, but battery-powered operation cannot be expected to remain practical, given what onvif focuses on.
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#43This still feels like: https://xkcd.com/927/
Good xkcd there, but Matter does seem to have industry acceptance at this point. Apple's support for it in Homekit was huge, and other companies have followed suit.
Competing standards will always exist, but buy-in is really key. You can have a worse standard and as long as you have buy-in, you can call it a success.
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#44I wish I could use Hue's silly RGB colour loop mode over this now, but it's still hidden behind a labs experiment.
(Connecting to HomeKit via Matter has actually been smoother than using the Hue app)
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#45Step in the right direction, but I wonder what's taking so long on getting support for cameras. That's my biggest use case at the moment. Having a bunch of Nest cameras that don't natively incorporate with HomeKit and having to do all sorts of work arounds to get a still generally crappy experience is killing my excitement for the smart home. And I won't buy new ones until they support Matter and there is true intero…
Unfortunately the options for HKSV doorbells is fairly limited. The Logitech circle view Doorbell looks like the best candidate but it has a spotty review history, with the biggest complaint being it breaking in direct sunlight. I’m about to buy some cameras and I’m thinking of just buying Nest and using https://scrypted.app to bridge to HKSV.
Aqara makes a HKSV doorbell. The camera is sub-par but it's cheap and works!
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#46I wonder when Ikea's Dirigera https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/dirigera-hub-for-smart-products... is getting Matter support. Have been waiting for ages now
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#47Is this a paper launch or did they stop working in the open?
Just look at the dishwasher example[1]: It is a lazy copy of the Lamp example. They couldn't even be bothered to fix the title. The rest of the source code is as good as empty and was not updated in months.
[1] https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip/tree/master/...
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#48There’s now support for robot vacuums, which is a big deal.
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…
Who makes the thermostat?
Re: Matter 1.2 – New device types and improvements
#49There’s now support for robot vacuums, which is a big deal.
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…
Which therm did you get? Does it also measure humidity?
Re: Matter 1.2 – New device types and improvements
#50Step in the right direction, but I wonder what's taking so long on getting support for cameras. That's my biggest use case at the moment. Having a bunch of Nest cameras that don't natively incorporate with HomeKit and having to do all sorts of work arounds to get a still generally crappy experience is killing my excitement for the smart home. And I won't buy new ones until they support Matter and there is true intero…
Unfortunately the options for HKSV doorbells is fairly limited. The Logitech circle view Doorbell looks like the best candidate but it has a spotty review history, with the biggest complaint being it breaking in direct sunlight. I’m about to buy some cameras and I’m thinking of just buying Nest and using https://scrypted.app to bridge to HKSV.
>with the biggest complaint being it breaking in direct sunlight.
I feel its pain. I break down in direct sunlight too. Doorbells would definitely be tricky, as I doubt most people know the path of the sun over course of a full year. I'd assume that most people look at the sun at the time of installation (if at all) and think they are safe. They don't take into account that exact time of the year when you hold a staff in the correct location in the map room to locate the Well of Souls where the light will stream in at exactly the right angle to the lens on the camera to melt the internal senor.
Maybe feng shui is proven correct by orienting your front door to the north so your doorbell doesn't face the sun?