That would require smart home widget actually working together and to be designed with a common design in mind, and not just every widget phoning home to its vendor cloud...
Support Matter over Thread and we can get there. It's still a little rocky but man, it's so much better than wifi devices all calling home to wherever.
I've had a lot of difficulty over the years with consumer level hardware supporting the IPv6 features required to work over wifi. Thread has been entirely painless, plus the fact that the end node can't do anything sneaky and get direct access to the internet is a positive for me.
But YMMV, if wifi works better for you, I'm still happy that Matter is being used :)
I’ve had issues as well, especially since I have multiple VLANs and mDNS reflection. Once I found out that was the problem and how to solve it, things started working better.
I have nothing against Thread, other than the fact that it requires specialised hardware, whereas Matter over WiFi uses what I already have in place. It’s all trade offs in the end.
My IoT VLAN is firewalled off from the Internet. Sure a misconfiguration could still mean that protection is lost, but that’s probably also de case with Thread.
Interestingly about IPv6, I have a few Matter devices who despite having IPv6 addresses, are only accessible over IPv4. I’m not sure what that means but it surprised me.
