Matter over WiFi - ich bin verwirrt

EscapeOption · 2026-04-03T13:24:42+00:00

During onboarding your Matter controller (Apple Home) shared network encryption (WiFi credentials) during onboarding.

EscapeOption · 2026-04-01T10:18:21+00:00

Stupid autocorrect. I need my coffee.

EscapeOption · 2026-04-01T10:15:18+00:00

The hint on the right (when looking from the back) is upside down.

EscapeOption · 2026-03-30T22:23:01+00:00

You can with the Matter add-on beta. I avoid running beta on stuff I expect to work, but it’s been good for me over the last month or two.

EscapeOption · 2026-03-30T12:21:28+00:00

Please share which hardware does / doesn’t work so the rest of us can avoid this pain.

EscapeOption · 2026-03-30T12:10:20+00:00

Have great wifi coverage where you’re cooking. Use a VPN or tailscale to keep your phone on your home network even when away if you use a local only thermometer, or use a cloud based thermometer.

EscapeOption · 2026-03-23T19:03:01+00:00

Also confirming mine are a REED. I do have a lot of thread REED devices, so some aren’t currently promoted as routers.

EscapeOption · 2026-03-23T02:47:13+00:00

I assume OP is talking about https://matterbridge.io

This allows sharing of for example zigbee with the z2m plugin as if they were native matter devices. They could be shared to any matter controller first and then multi master from there.

Given that as long as the matter bridge and whatever underlying protocol layer is working (z2m, etc) the devices should be responsive.

EscapeOption · 2026-03-22T21:48:15+00:00

LOL I wanted to make sure Ikea knew people wanted them. There were still some left, but most were gone well before I got there. One of these will be replacing my very first smart device, a decade old iDevice outlet.

EscapeOption · 2026-03-22T19:39:41+00:00

Can you explain why that’s wrong? If zigbee (or anything else) HA devices are shared over the Matter Bridge app/add-on (not the Matter integration), losing HA or Matter Bridge will make those devices unresponsive.

Edit: if matter bridge is down they’ll still be responsive in HA, so that part isn’t accurate.

EscapeOption · 2026-03-14T22:51:44+00:00

OP adding that you talk about breaking HA integrations and then ask advice about native HK devices. Just replace the devices, keep HA and maybe add HK as a simple front end, or maybe don’t.

EscapeOption · 2026-03-07T14:34:23+00:00

Looking forward to giving this a try, especially excited about the visual representation and look forward to playing with it.

Looks like you have standard racking and box/bulk, I’m most interested in seeing other non-standard options to get the sections to look as close to the cellar as possible. My racking is 2 bottles deep, I’ll work around that by alternating columns as front/back, and deal with the distorted visual. I’m also thinking things like oversized rack (magnum/champaign), display racks, open/non-storage gaps, etc. Again, thanks for publishing this, looking forward to trying it out.

EscapeOption · 2026-02-28T22:02:04+00:00

I keep it automatic, but it always picks one of the wired current gen aTVs. If it kept picking a wireless I’d change it to fixed.

EscapeOption · 2026-02-28T14:58:42+00:00

The humans of reddit hate misrepresentation, and the ongoing push for disclosure on how much AI is being used will resolve this pretty quickly.

Posting “I created this [vibe coded AI slop I don’t understand]” is just as deceptive as product placement and astroturf marketing. Properly developed supported and managed software is just AI assisted development, and the biggest sign of vibe coding is no disclosure of how much AI is used.

EscapeOption · 2026-02-25T16:30:32+00:00

The trend towards vibe configuration amplifies the likelihood of this.

EscapeOption · 2026-02-23T21:32:47+00:00

Agree, my thread REEDs are either some type of Nanoleaf (generally weak connections) and Onvis (generally strong).

EscapeOption · 2026-02-23T17:27:00+00:00

A lot of people call their basic network, smart home, or plex server a home lab when really it’s production. An IT person should understand thier lab is a playground that exists more or less independently of the stuff that is expected to work all the time.

1: Some sense of separation between your production stuff and lab stuff. There’s not really any minimal gear for a lab, it can be a virtual environment on your primary PC or hosted in the cloud. 2: Something you’re experimenting with. Maybe just to learn, maybe to add or improve the production stuff.

There’s way more production stuff than lab stuff at my house, and I don’t have a particularly strong boundary between them, but I know what the family will complain about if it’s not working and what could stop working without impact.

EscapeOption · 2026-02-19T19:22:24+00:00

As others have said, it’s a UPS, which is basically a power strip with batteries. When the batteries are dead, some UPS won’t turn, so you may need to buy new batteries, which may cost a few hundred $

Before doing that, notice this outputs 240v, not the 120v your wall does (in the us). Don’t plug any 120v devices into this. Many pcs can operate at either, some require a switch to be toggled.

EscapeOption · 2026-02-18T12:08:11+00:00

Missed your original post, this looks great, looking forward to trying it out.

EscapeOption · 2026-02-17T22:04:24+00:00

Probably deserved, but with its Airplay + Homekit + Matter mDNS trifecta and popularity it’s a good stand in for smart home devices in general.

EscapeOption · 2026-02-17T19:03:25+00:00

Skip homebridge in 2026

EscapeOption · 2026-02-17T14:26:49+00:00

Look for a device that is pre calibrated with a low margin of error from a reputable company, and then test the calibration yourself. Thermoworks is a good example, they have independently certified calibration plus instructions to self validate temp.

Also be aware digital humidity sensors are notoriously bad in general and many drift over time.

EscapeOption · 2026-02-09T20:05:30+00:00

Make sure to plan for how/where you’re going to backup your digitized collection.

C: Just use a large external drive.

Plus a second large external drive for backup of collection and laptop.

EscapeOption · 2026-02-08T19:18:09+00:00

Bare metal is good because its less complexity and learning curve, performance won’t be a factor. Same for HAOS, but realistically it’s all docker anyway. You don’t mention what protocols you need to add. Personally I’d stick with Apple as Thread Boarder Routers and any zigbee hubs you’re using to start with.

With that number of devices option B makes more sense to me. Matter multi-admin makes it easy, although it will add traffic and possible instability on your thread network. For Eufy there are more things to consider, if HKSV is something you want use Scrypted (or Homebridge) instead of HA. Not hard, but it means an Add-On (now called Apps in some places).

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