Section 3 of 6
What outlived the products
The open standards that still work. 4 pieces sit in this section; the whole roster is on the archive.
Radios that outlived their hubs
Zigbee and Z-Wave devices keep working across hub generations because the radio layer was specified independently of any one vendor.
longOne more attempt at a common layer
Matter is an industry attempt to standardise the application layer, and its value will be judged on whether devices survive their vendors.
mediumA message format small enough to last
MQTT was designed for constrained links and remains the practical spine of self-hosted device control two decades on.
mediumLocal control as a whole project
Home Assistant exists to keep control on the local network, and the size of its integration list is a measure of how much has needed rescuing.
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