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IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee) (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

I don't see why you can't keep your Zigbee network and start up a new Thread/Matter one. They should be fine to work together! Your Zigbee stuff will work in 20 years, besides component failure.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    @bdonvr @aksdb One zigbee device replaced by a thread device means that one node is removed from the zigbee network, making it smaller. Since it's a mesh network it will become less robust as a result. Likewise, the initial thread network will be very sparsely populated until a sufficient amount of devices has been added to it.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    That's fair, though you could leave a zigbee router plugged in to bridge things even if you don't really need the device for example a smart plug.

    The other disadvantage is that for a zigbee device to control a matter device it will have to route through your home assistant/smart home hub instead of being able to pair a switch directly to lights for example with zigbee.

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