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Matter vs Zigbee: what is Matter actually replacing?
(discuss.tchncs.de)
Discussion about general home automation ideas and projects, home automation protocols like Z-wave, Zigbee, Matter, etc, and home automation software and hubs like HomeSeer, Home Assistant, OpenHAB, Homey.
Yeah, so it's more or less what I was thinking. This is something that currently does NOT exist with Zigbee, right? I could have a Zigbee light bulb that speaks in a specific obscure language, whereas all Matter lightbulbs understand and send the same information.
Yes but, matter standardises what is plugged into the Ethernet network. So easier for home assistant and others to work together.
Unfortunately, you will still need zigbee2mqtt / ZHA to get different vendors zogbee devices to work. I think z2m is looking at matter support.