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project-chip / connectedhomeip

connectedhomeip

Matter (formerly Project CHIP) creates more connections between more objects, simplifying development for manufacturers and increasing compatibility for consumers, guided by the Connectivity Standards Alliance.

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What it is

Matter (formerly Project CHIP) creates more connections between more objects, simplifying development for manufacturers and increasing compatibility for consumers, guided by the Connectivity Standards Alliance.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:03:49 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year25 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-07-01 20:01:15 UTC to 2024-08-06 16:14:16 UTC.

0369122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 2 submissions, 10 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12210
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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ESP32s aren't really ‘lower level’ in the sense that anyone is likely to write assembly code for them (compared to, say, 8051 or PIC), other than maybe some driver author at Espressif. The big win from using RISC-V, other than name recognition, is mainstream compiler support (which is nothing to sneeze at, especially when it's largely funded by someone else). When I worked on Matter¹, the Xtensa and RISC-V versions were basically fungible from the software point of view. (And really, so were other vendors' various ARMs.) We did find that Bloaty McBloatface² didn't support Xtensa, so I had to write an alternative. ¹ https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip/ ² https://github.com/google/bloaty
In ESP32-C3 Wireless Adventure: A Comprehensive Guide to IoT [pdf]
"Securing name resolution in the IoT: DNS over CoAP" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32186286 From https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip#architecture... : > Matter aims to build a universal IPv6-based communication protocol for smart home devices. The protocol defines the application layer that will be deployed on devices and the different link layers to help maintain interoperability. The following diagram illustrates the normal operational mode of the stack: > [...] It is built with market-proven technologies using Internet Protocol (IP) and is compatible with Thread and Wi-Fi network transports. > Matter was developed by a Working Group within the Connectivity Standards Alliance (Alliance). This Working Group develops and promotes the adoption of the Matter standard, a royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compa
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tibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet. The vision that led major industry players to come together to build Matter is that smart connectivity should be simple, reliable, and interoperable. > [...] The code examples show simple interactions, and are supported on multiple transports -- Wi-Fi and Thread -- starting with resource-constrained (i.e., memory, processing) silicon platforms to help ensure Matter’s scalability. Would it make sense to have an mqtt transport for matter? Or a bridge; like homeassistant or similar? https://github.com/home-assistant/core#featured-integrations lists mqtt Is there already a good (security) comparison of e.g. http basic auth, x10, ZigBee, mqtt, matter?
In Matter Raspberry Pi GPIO Commander – Turn Your Pi into a Matter Lighting Device

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