Belkin balks at Matter
While the existing Thread devices from Wemo come with many of the important benefits of Matter — exclusively local control with no direct access to your home network, fast operation, and easy setup that cuts out your Wi-Fi router as the middleman — they lack the most crucial feature, the central problem Matter is to solve: near-universal smart home platform compatibility.Wemo, and Belkin at large, has had its accessories wagon hitched to Apple’s train for a while.
It’s pretty hard for companies like Wemo to stand out in a field full of cheap IoT junk that costs half the price to do the same thing But it’s pretty hard for companies like Wemo to stand out in a field full of cheap IoT junk that costs half the price to do the same thing, as far as most normal people are concerned. Sure, maybe they’re less secure, but many people willingly put an internet-connected microphone in their home, too. They probably don’t care about the possible security issues with their light switch.
Bargain bin, no-name smart light switches and smart plugs are particularly ubiquitous and often work with every smart home platform but Apple’s. If theyoffer support for HomeKit, it’s often through a second, pricier version of the same devices with special compliance with Apple’s rigid specifications. Matter, in theory, should fix that by weaving Apple’s security practices into the fabric of the new protocol.
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