This, this year, this year was never about the bright new features. In addition to the support of security cameras, which I have heard that should eventually reach this fall, it is about to fix the problems in 2025. And with the announcement today, with 1.4.4.2, the smart home standard is moving forward.
In January, Tubin Richardson, President and CEO of the Coordination Alliance (the organization that runs the matter), told me that this year would be about “focusing on fixing these reliability and performance issues.” Now, more than half a way of 2025, CSA is eventually trying to improve this promise, and the sign is showing that this platform is ready to work together to work together and to adopt these new spirits.
The matter brings 1.4.2 more standard, so devices treat the same whether you are using Amazon Alexa, Apple Home, Google Home, or a matter platform. Improvement of the equipment’s communication method, which means less random and sharp reaction. And push a big relief.
And where does the reliability start in the smart home? With your Wi -Fi router.
Domestic routers and access points were added to 1.4, and in the latest speculation, the foundations of the material environmental system automatically improve the rotor settings. It helps to connect multi -cast traffic management (a type of device to discuss a network) and storing thread network credentials, such as connecting devices to the right thread network.
Although there are no certified routers yet, the capacity here is very high. Router settings are a common reason that the device does not connect to a network, and the user is usually left to detect it. With this feature, your smart home platform can possibly solve them before these problems arise.
This speaker determines how many devices the router can support the new standards, including at least 150 thread devices and 100 Wi -Fi devices. It also helps battery -powered equipment to help protect the target target weekend.
Another major change is that 1.4.2 only brings the Wi-FI-FII commission. Currently, Bluetooth is the only way to ride a device, so the device of each case has to have Bluetooth radio that can only be used during the setup. With WiFi commissioning, manufacturers will not need to make Bluetooth in every device, which means cheap gadgets. Onboarding experience will be the same, though: Scan the case code in your ecosystem app.
Your Smart Home Platform can fix the contact problems possible before they are born
This will be some time as long as we see manufacturers taking advantage of it, as a material controllers-which you need to add a device in the matter and may be an Apple TV-like smart speaker or set top box-Firmware upgrades for the Wi-FI ship-driven support.
1.4.2 should help keep the equipment online and interact more efficiently. These include updates how often and why the devices need “check -in”, which should help reduce traffic. This can extend the battery life for some devices and this means that all devices can have fast times of response response, as they are not fighting to listen. Gadgets that often do not need to report like a water leak sensor should now be able to “sleep” for a long time without removing the network.
Security updates with 1.4.2 bring concerns for increasing concern in IOT: cloning. Explaining Infinone’s Steve Hannah, “We have added the ability to cancel the unique ID of each material tool. This means that if you try to add a device that is identified as clone or fake, you will receive a warning that it is not safe.
Manufactured by Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung, and others, the matter is an open, IP -based connectivity software layer for smart home devices. It works on Wi -Fi, Ethernet and thread.
The thread is a low power, wireless mesh protocol. It works on the same 2.4GHz spectrum such as zigbe and low -strength devices, such as sensors, light bulbs, plugs and shade. IP -based, thread devices can directly discuss with each other, the Internet, and other networks using a thread border router.
Today, the matter supports most types of the device at home, including lighting, thermostas, locks, robots vacuums, refrigerators, dishwasher, dryer, oven, smoke alarm, air quality monitors, EV chargers and more.
A smart home gadget with the matter logo can be arranged by the controller of any matter with the environmental system according to any matter and can be controlled by more than one environmental system, which has a multi -admin feature.
Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Samsung Smarthangs, Apple Home, Home Assistant, IKEA, and hundreds of device manufacturers are among the leading smart home companies.
The controllers will still be able to secretly confirm that they are the ones who say, once again to ensure that nothing is fake and potentially dangerous on your network. “This is considered an industry as the best process,” says Hannah. “We have not seen it in the jungle, but we are focused on being active.”
The speculation also included new security features for material routers, including access restriction list (ARL). Although the platform can now access the settings on your router, it is limited to what they can do, ideally prevent them from messing up your net flix streaming.
The new release also has some quality of life for users, focusing on standardizing experience in smart home ecosystem platforms.
Better Views: Material scenes now have a standard way to activate the platform. This means that you can create scenes using only substance devices in your smart home app, and compared to scenes of devices on other protocols, they should respond faster and work on the bottom of the Internet. Scenes now support time -based measures. Therefore, for example, you can create a wake -up scene where the lights can slowly illuminate more than 30 minutes.
Cleaner Device ID: The matter platform will recognize when the device has been added twice – somewhere, through the cloud connection and through the material – and only once in their app. Numerous functions, such as four smart outlets power stripes or multiple capacity sensors, will be identified more reliable in the ecosystem.
Automatic adding: 1.4.2 Makes the standard of how devices inform the environmental system about their presence or new capabilities. Therefore, if you add a new light to your Hue Bridge, or if a gadget receives a new feature from a firmware update, your smart home app can automatically inform you of the new device/ability without any additional setup.
Standard robot vacuum behavior: Another refreshing to work things in the same way, it doesn’t matter what environmental system you are using, vacuum commands are being updated. Now, no need to cancel a new task is to be started before a new one can be started.
Although all these sounds are encouraging for smart home standard, this improvement relies on environmental systems and device manufacturers that develop updates or build new hardware (there is still no difference Wi-FI routers).
The biggest problem of the matter is to slowly adopt new spears through some major players, which in turn prevents manufacturers from investing in updates and new hardware. Tubin Richardson told me that CSA has developed a fast track programs that make the current code easy, faster and cheaper, which can make it fast.
When the matter was launched almost three years ago, it seemed that the big players here – Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung – would just take it and walk with it. This didn’t happen. The resulting shock and slowdown has equally frustrated consumers and manufacturers.
Overall, the clear focus of 1.4 updates in this case is clear on advancing the environmental system, which gives them better tools to make it easier for them to create better experiences. Let’s hope that they will use them.
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