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Cake day: August 23rd, 2023

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  • The only matter-compatable device that I have only works with ipv6/wifi, not thread, so I haven’t been able to learn how it works first-hand, unfortunately. I do wish they went with slightly different names for the network system, as it’s weird to have a product that is ‘matter compatable’ but ‘oh not your type of matter’ like, if they are catching geeky folk with this, it’s absolutely confusing traditional individuals.

    I have the matter integration, but since I don’t have anything that can currently use it, it’s just empty right now.


  • Edit: ah I’m an idiot, it’s a zigbee + z-wave, not matter dongle! Derp. I added matter at the same time and mixed the two up.

    I grabbed an Aeotec Z-Stick 10 Pro a few months ago, although I can’t run Matter over wifi (with my sole device that supports matter) since I can’t get an ipv6 address from my isp. But I figured it would be useful down the line as matter/thread gains popularity. I already had several Zigbee devices so future-proofing my setup. And I’m running ha off a proper server now, but that could change, so having less occupied usb ports is handy.

    I transferred my existing zigbee network to the new dongle and after some moderate troubleshooting (I have proxmox, VM passthrough, plus HA to deal with) I had it moved over and unplugged the old dongle, and everything continued to work.