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IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee) (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by deergon@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] monogram 46 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Zigbee does that too tho, right?

The wiki on zigbee says so at least

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, Thread serves similar functionality to Zigbee, to the extent that some people describe it as Zigbee 2.0.

However it’s a new protocol for a new standard, that has backing from all the big names in home automation, including Apple, Amazon, Google.

Zigbee is a great protocol. Thread will bring better connectivity for the future (we hope)

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure than an underlying feature of both zigbee and zwave.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They're different in their implementation. Zigbee automesh is more of a centralized router-hub model with self healing relying on routing tables. This caused significant issues for me. Thread is true automesh with all devices acting as a hub in a hub/spoke model, so there's no centralized routing table to act as a single point of failure.