▲ 255 ▼ IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee) (www.theverge.com) submitted 1 year ago by deergon@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world 112 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] monogram@feddit.nl 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 child) Pretty sure than an underlying feature of both zigbee and zwave. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year 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) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 child) Pretty sure than an underlying feature of both zigbee and zwave. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year 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) permalink fedilink source parent