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From smart homes to folding phones, here’s what we expect to see at the IFA trade show next week.

The article discusses expectations for smart home announcements at the upcoming IFA tech show in Berlin. While companies may unveil new smart speakers, cameras and robot vacuums, the smart home remains fragmented as the Matter interoperability standard has yet to fully deliver on integrating devices. The author argues the industry needs to provide more utility than novelty by allowing different smart devices to work together seamlessly. Examples mentioned include lights notifying users of doorbell activity or a robot vacuum taking on multiple household chores autonomously. Overall, the smart home needs solutions that are essential rather than just novel if consumers are to see the value beyond the initial cool factor.

  •  flatbield   ( @furrowsofar@beehaw.org ) English
    2•10 months ago

    Thanks. What do you know about the security differences? Some say pairing security of Zigbee not that great. Thanks.

    Other interesting thing is Debian seems to have z-wave libraries but not zigbee ones. At least my version of Debian which is old stable. Home Assistant seems to support both.

    •  d3Xt3r   ( @d3Xt3r@beehaw.org ) 
      4•10 months ago

      There’s actually not much of a security difference between the two these days, both protocols have gone thru improvements, both use AES-128 encryption, both use frame protection etc.

      That pairing issue of ZigBee was addressed with v3.0, which uses random install codes for each device.