{"id":7070,"date":"2025-12-13T14:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=7070"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:06:35","slug":"matter-over-thread","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=7070","title":{"rendered":"Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The KNX<\/a> standard works well by being vendor-independent, with the standard (and devices’ compliance with that standard?) being managed by a consortium – and then different manufacturers are free to design and manufacture devices which comply with that standard. An end-customer is free to mix-and-match devices from different manufacturers, safe in the knowledge they will all work together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Matter standard follows a similar philosophy – with the Matter standard<\/a> itself being defined by the Connectivity Standards Alliance<\/a> (who also ‘own’ Zigbee). As of the end of 2025 Matter is still relatively new – unlike KNX which has proven track record over multiple decades – but it shows promise and is certainly no worse than other competing (but more ‘closed’) technologies which typically bundle together the lower-level and higher-level protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matter evolved from the earlier Connected Home IP (CHIP) project<\/a> and can run over different underlying IP(v6) transport technologies. Typically these are either WiFi (which is well understood but relatively power-hungry so not good for battery powered devices) or Thread, which is much less power-hungry. Typically people refer to either ‘Matter over WiFi’ or ‘Matter over Thread’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One annoyance with Matter is that it seems to require a very ‘flat’ network topology, which constrains the way it needs to be deployed in a non-trivial network environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a nice explanation of the technology underpinning Matter (and Thread) see https:\/\/www.derekseaman.com\/2023\/10\/part-1-smart-home-matter-and-thread-deep-dive.html<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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