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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Home Assistant officially Matters (www.home-assistant.io)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Besides that, Thread is pretty low-bandwidth and low-noise. It's designed to sip battery life from devices.

2.4Ghz just allows it to be built into tons of devices without an extra chip. Every Google Hub, Alexa, or Apple hub supports it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Every Google, Alexa and Apple hub support 2.4Ghz Wifi and likely can be a Matter controllers, however only a subset of them support Thread.