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Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thanks everyone! Seems like the consensus is the GMK. I’ll try CasaOS on it then. If anyone here has experience with it though, do I need an extra peripheral for ZigBee/Matter support, like this one?
B0rax@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Matter is not really big yet.
For zigbee adapters, take a look here: www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/
Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is the Sky Connect I linked not good compared to those other ones? It supposedly connects with ZigBee, Matter, and Thread
zorflieg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Looks a little pricey but probably would work fine. I bought my first zstack based Texas for $25. Worked fine for a couple of years till I realized it had a limit on how many devices it could handle. so I upgraded it to the next model up for another $25. That’s when I found out if you change methods you have to re adopt everything. But if I kept it on the same method (zstack Texas zha) all I did was swap the dongle and everything kept rolling just with a higher limit of devices.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I found a much cheaper alternative that ships from Europe for only 35€.
I’m getting conflicting information on Home Connect about the Sky Connect (now named some weird letter/number combo) that says it supports both matter/thread and ZigBee, but also actually it’s experimental so not really and it works for some but not others, but also support for matter/thread is coming in November…