You can sort of run your own device if you're fine with giving google far too much information and they can block you at any time.
Face it, bigtech has a hardon for closed ecosystems. If they could they'd make it so every computer that wants to send an ethernet packet has a private key blessed by some bigtech cabal which they can revoke, but luckily for us this standard predates this gross new fetish.
Do you extend that criticism to USB, Bluetooth, WiFi, etc.? The alternative and current status quo is every vendor developing their own proprietary, incompatible and insecure protocols. Unless there's a better alternative I am unaware of, Matter is a step towards greater interoperability and openness.
I do, but it's especially grating here because Zigbee didn't have this restriction, and none of your examples actually enforce it technically. I have some Chinese USB devices that are very useful but use an incorrect VendorID. But I don't care, they work great.
And besides, so far I've been able to use 100% of my Zigbee devices with Zigbee2MQTT and it's been wonderful.
Matter has nothing to do with Google except they are supporting the standard. If you care so much about an open ecosystem Google Home shouldn't even matter, you would be worried about Home Assistant support.
> NOTE for Android users: You need to follow the instructions at the bottom of the page to add the test device to the Google developer console, otherwise commissioning will fail.
Anyway, you absolutely should care about Google Home support if you want to sell a device. It'd be ridiculous to sell something that only works with Home Assistant even if I'd personally be perfectly happy with that.
You need to involve Google if you want to test your own Matter device on Android, which is an OS made by Google. How does that say anything about Matter itself?
> This process is a bit more involved but is also pretty straightforward and easy to do in most setups, though it is not officially supported and is intended for developer use.
I'll stick with my zigbee flow of "press 2 buttons"
I think you're seriously being so obtuse about the issue that it calls into question whether you're being honest about your belief with issues with Matter. Zigbee had the same requirements for branding, but they were small enough for Chinese makers to ignore and no big companies cared enough enforce. ZWave is generally considered more reliable and they actually enforced their requirements.
I do not want another crappy USB C type experience to satisfy the zero dollar hobbyist. We'll just end up with zero dollar garbage from large manufacturers named Xhflk.
No, I'm serious. If I can't provision (read: use) my own matter devices without involving Google then... I need Google to make my own matter device. Are you refuting this? Can you explain how and why the Home Assistant docs are wrong?
a closed ecosystem means hermetically sealed: nothing gets in or out. matter is just treating their brand with respect. not different from any other industry standard.
if you're saying "I want all industry standards to become governmental ones", well, I happen to agree.
That's a good thing. The only thing these legal limitations protect are the american stakeholders and no one should care about them, they are already worth billions.
It’s an indication that most new products will (and usually do) launch somewhere less strict first. The EU can change that by cutting down on rules but we all know it’s going the opposite direction towards further stagnation with current plans.
Exactly. I'm not under the age of 18 and is located in the EU region, thus cannot use this service for no other obvious reason. I guess Google feels it is more convenient to just block EU users from services like this than it is to try to comply with EU regulations.
Remember the faceswap apps that were doing the rounds a while back?
The most egregious violators of privacy and ingestors of PII are often the most trivial of 'cool tech demos'. This being Google doesn't make it any different - particularly after their egregious violations regarding their Incognito Mode.
They're reigning themselves in before they're smacked down again for naked profiteering, not 'punishing' the EU for imposing a 'success-tax' as the reductive consensus from Americans seems to be.
