deergon@lemmy.world to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoIKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee)www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square115fedilinkarrow-up1253arrow-down11
arrow-up1252arrow-down1external-linkIKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee)www.theverge.comdeergon@lemmy.world to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square115fedilink
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoThread is the replacement for zigbee. It’s zigbee plus more features. There is nothing zigbee does better than thread. Lower power usage, ipv6, standard tls security, not proprietary, etc.
minus-squaredanAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoDoes Thread support pairing two or more devices so they can control each other directly without going through the coordinator? I do that a bit with my Zigbee network.
minus-squareClaude Flammang@dju.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months ago@dan Exactly, that’s why they gave it IPV6. I am aware of at least one product using this technique: https://www.evehome.com/index%2Ephp/en/eve-thermo-control
Thread is the replacement for zigbee.
It’s zigbee plus more features.
There is nothing zigbee does better than thread.
Lower power usage, ipv6, standard tls security, not proprietary, etc.
Does Thread support pairing two or more devices so they can control each other directly without going through the coordinator? I do that a bit with my Zigbee network.
@dan
Exactly, that’s why they gave it IPV6. I am aware of at least one product using this technique: https://www.evehome.com/index%2Ephp/en/eve-thermo-control