I’m about to buy some cameras and I’m thinking of just buying Nest and using https://scrypted.app to bridge to HKSV.
I feel its pain. I break down in direct sunlight too. Doorbells would definitely be tricky, as I doubt most people know the path of the sun over course of a full year. I'd assume that most people look at the sun at the time of installation (if at all) and think they are safe. They don't take into account that exact time of the year when you hold a staff in the correct location in the map room to locate the Well of Souls where the light will stream in at exactly the right angle to the lens on the camera to melt the internal senor.
Maybe feng shui is proven correct by orienting your front door to the north so your doorbell doesn't face the sun?
Might also be privacy
ONVIF has specifications/profiles for management, functionality, and codecs (S and T):
Just look at the dishwasher example[1]: It is a lazy copy of the Lamp example. They couldn't even be bothered to fix the title. The rest of the source code is as good as empty and was not updated in months.
[1] https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip/tree/master/...
(There is “binary switch”, which is what my Matter power sockets expose - but the measurements that I actually care about (total kWh, volts, amps, frequency, etc) are only exposed via the company’s proprietary app which runs in parallel “because there is no way of exposing these via Matter” :( )
> Device & Endpoint Composition – Devices can now be hierarchically composed from complex endpoints allowing for accurate modeling of appliances, multi-unit switches, and multi-light fixtures.
IOT = Internet of Things
Yes, Zigbee and ZWave have already done the work that Matter is attempting, but they both conflate the networking architecture with the API. We really do need a pure API that can work over WiFi, or anything else.
I'm in India and it seems that the ecosystem is really garbage -- some devices work with Alexa, some with Google, and very little work with _all_ major providers (and I'm an Apple user). Is it better in other countries?
If you work for traditional thermostat company that happens to also build connected ones, adding Matter on top of other things required a lot of memory and microcontroller improvements that we just didn't have the space for previously. Especially when half your company does nothing but drive cost out of the BOM.
So, it's net new product.
Now a security panel on the other hand should be a little easier.. the modern ones are basically linux boxes.
I remember a power strip that refused to work wothout internet because it could not communicate with server for auth and actions.
I have decided to go full diy and use relays and esp32 to power on devices and such.
Use raspberry pis with home assistant to do the work.
I'd have preferred another language, but what I want to do is ultimately so simple that TS should be fine.
You can create virtual devices using Homebridge plug-ins. Here's an example: https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-dummy
(Connecting to HomeKit via Matter has actually been smoother than using the Hue app)
My air conditioner just died, would be great if a matter compatible one became available.
What would you want the API to look like here?
I would be very conservative about opening up an API if I was a manufacturer. The reason being that there may be misuses by amateur coders that may increase wear on the product, and leading to increase in warranty claims.
I, as a manufacturer, would much rather prefer customers buy something like a Nest/Ecobee, etc. and manage that. Nest (and likely Ecobee) likely have smarts to not turn the AC on/off 30 times within 10 minutes, etc. Also, you benefit from other algorithms like "Time-to-Temp" (Nest), malfunctioning equipment alerts (Nest), etc. If you're in the US, many electricity utilities will give you a discount if you buy a smart thermostat, and then you can further gain $$ by enrolling in demand-response programs.
Saving money on this is not a priority for me. Ecobee already works with Homekit, I would gladly buy an ecobee AC that did the same.
Competing standards will always exist, but buy-in is really key. You can have a worse standard and as long as you have buy-in, you can call it a success.
