happy holidays! It’s that season again of trimming trees, hanging lights, baking cookies…and spending two weeks at home trying to figure out why the lights don’t come on by themselves at night and which stupid light bulb is causing it all. The rest don’t work. It truly is the most wonderful time of the year.
every year in edge broadcastwe love getting into the holiday spirit by taking a closer look at one of the most important norms, protocols or systems we encounter every day. This year, for our annual holiday event, we’re featuring everyone’s favorite functional smart home protocol: Matter.
Matter is what is supposed to make a smart home work, allowing everything from lights to refrigerators to vacuum cleaners to connect seamlessly. In fact, this is not the case. But it might be on the way! We are represented by Nilay, David and edgeJennifer Pattison Tuohy talks about the current state of matter, and the smart home’s progress and mistakes this year. We also talk about threads. a lot of. Exceeded our expectations.
Afterward, the trio compete in a game to see who best understands the complex, overlapping terms of the physical universe. (It’s a tough competition, but the right person will win in the end.) Finally, Paulus Schoutsen, creator of Home Assistant and president of the Open Home Foundation, joins the show to talk about what it’s like to work with Matter and whether we can always have dreams smart home in .
This is our last episode of the year – we’ll be back with a live broadcast from CES, and if you’re heading to Vegas, we hope you’ll join us! In the meantime, I wish you a happy holiday season and may all your smart lights always be the right color.
If you’d like to learn more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started:
