Protocols in use

Matter

used in 7 Recipes

Application layer over Thread or Wi-Fi; the only protocol here that reports a real cover position and a settable current.

• Storm reserve: pre-charge the battery and shed discretionary loads
  300000 ms · mains
• Door left open: timed escalation instead of an instant alarm
  90000 ms · matter (contacts on battery, speakers on mains)
• Daylight harvesting: electric light follows the window
  8000 ms · mains
• Divert solar surplus to the hot water cylinder instead of exporting at 4 ¢
  60000 ms · mains
• Night cooling purge that pulls in cool air only when it helps
  180000 ms · mains
• Lux-adaptive blinds that hold 300 lx on the desk, not a fixed percentage
  90000 ms · mains
• Arrival warm-light handoff on the hall mmWave
  850 ms · mains

Thread

used in 4 Recipes

Fast reporting and long battery life, but a border router per floor or handoffs stall for seconds.

• Dark-room occupancy boost for a windowless utility room
  400 ms · mains
• Pipe-freeze guard: trickle the far tap and warn before the line drops to 2 °C
  120000 ms · mains
• Whole-flat CO₂ purge with a 9-minute cross-ventilation window
  540000 ms · mains
• Room-following light that tracks you along the corridor
  600 ms · mixed (2 × battery, 1 × mains)

Zigbee

used in 7 Recipes

Cheapest sensors, mains-powered routers in every room. Weak at holding very low dim levels on cheap drivers.

• Bedtime taper: the house dims itself as rooms empty
  600000 ms · mains
• Overcast compensation for a north-facing kitchen
  5000 ms · mains
• Irrigation that skips a zone when the soil is already wet
  1800000 ms · mixed (probes on battery, controller on mains)
• Dishwasher deferral to the cheapest two-hour tariff window
  50400000 ms · mains
• Departure standby sweep with a 12-device check list
  45000 ms · mains
• Nightly phantom-load audit that finds the 38 W you forgot about
  60000 ms · mains
• Bathroom fan that runs until the humidity gradient flattens
  2000 ms · mains

Z-Wave

used in 4 Recipes

Used here where range and confirmation matter: garden runs, valves, radiator heads, alarm hardware.

• Radiator-by-radiator balancing from room temperature curves
  1200000 ms · battery
• Smoke and CO alarm: egress lighting, unlock, and silencing the HVAC
  4000 ms · mains
• Twilight path lighting keyed to sun elevation, not a clock
  30000 ms · mains
• Leak-triggered main shutoff with a 4 litre flow threshold
  9000 ms · mains

Wi-Fi

used in 5 Recipes

Reserved for devices that need bandwidth or a vendor API: cameras, chargers, weather feeds, inverters.

• Rainwater tank top-up and pump protection on a level probe
  3600000 ms · mains
• Pollen lockout that closes windows before the count spikes
  2400000 ms · mains
• Package watch: porch event to a 40-second clip, no continuous recording
  3000 ms · poe
• EV charging that yields to the oven without stranding the car
  15000 ms · mains
• Guest mode: local recording only, cameras pause in private rooms
  2200 ms · mains