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IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee) (www.theverge.com)

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

So, if I'm invested in zigbee, but want to future proof, I should consider threads/matter, and a hub that talks to both?

Can home assistant do that?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Yes if you have a Zigbee and a Thread antenna module connected to your HA instance you can run it as an Zigbee and Matter hub and connect Zigbee and Matter devices. A cheap antenna module is the Sonoff ZBDongle-E. You can flash the firmware of it and turn it into a Thread antenna module. It can also run as a Zigbee and Thread antenna simultaneously, but I never got that working properly. So I just bought two dongles. One for Zigbee and the other for Matter.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks. I'll look into it. Right now I have mainly lights and sockets, through a Lidl zigbee hub, a rebranded Tuya, I believe, but I'm looking into going a bit deeper.

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