1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,420 Jonathan I need your help I have the worst smart home I have like six smart 2 00:00:13,420 --> 00:00:17,220 lights I have a smart lock smart plugs and I have to have apps for everything 3 00:00:17,220 --> 00:00:20,820 it doesn't just all show up in the home app on my iPhone and it is such a pain 4 00:00:20,820 --> 00:00:24,180 by the way this emergency line such a great idea I'm gonna call it all the 5 00:00:24,180 --> 00:00:27,340 time you never listen to me at the office oh and it'll be so cool you know 6 00:00:27,340 --> 00:00:32,380 I'm right here it's 2024 there has to be an easier way to make this all work 7 00:00:32,380 --> 00:00:41,020 together there is this is the problem with the smart home especially for Apple 8 00:00:41,020 --> 00:00:46,100 users and it's why I barged into Jake's house because there's a fix do you have 9 00:00:46,100 --> 00:00:51,060 an outlet for it probably over a year ago a brand new smart home standard was 10 00:00:51,060 --> 00:00:55,100 released called matter it's a protocol that enables supported smart home 11 00:00:55,100 --> 00:01:00,060 devices to talk to any supported smart home apps I'm eager to try it and Jake 12 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:05,060 is the perfect candidate so this is what you got a yeah you know it doesn't 13 00:01:05,060 --> 00:01:08,980 look like a lot but it packs a punch no it doesn't these tech ins does this 14 00:01:08,980 --> 00:01:14,060 support matter or home kit well likely not no I got them from Amazon matter is 15 00:01:14,060 --> 00:01:18,380 especially important for us Apple users because not everything works for the 16 00:01:18,380 --> 00:01:23,420 iPhone years ago Apple created their own standard called home kit it was a big 17 00:01:23,420 --> 00:01:26,740 mess with hardware encryption requirements that no one wanted to 18 00:01:26,740 --> 00:01:31,220 participate in they've loosened things up since then but even today home kit 19 00:01:31,220 --> 00:01:35,660 requires MFI certification and there are a limited number of devices that 20 00:01:35,660 --> 00:01:41,380 support it oh home kit that's pretty good yeah the only problem with that is I 21 00:01:41,380 --> 00:01:45,300 bought it from Nicole at the office and it's linked to her house so I can 22 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:50,500 actually put it in my home kit and I've been too shy to ask her to remove it 23 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:55,700 despite Jake's situation I find home kit devices work quite well but you have 24 00:01:55,700 --> 00:02:02,660 to watch out for everything else these are Wi-Fi RGB's it works with Alexa 25 00:02:02,660 --> 00:02:07,780 worth the Google Google Assistant gov home app no Apple yep from my experience 26 00:02:07,780 --> 00:02:11,500 most of the light bulbs at the store will have a Google and Alexa logo but 27 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:14,940 not the home kit one and that's if you're lucky because you can find ones 28 00:02:14,940 --> 00:02:18,900 that don't have any logos at all newie there's not it doesn't even say it 29 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:23,580 works with anything other than app control well yeah before there wasn't 30 00:02:23,580 --> 00:02:30,740 that didn't make a difference where there was no matter there was only app control but if there's a matter logo it should just work and that's what I'm 31 00:02:30,740 --> 00:02:36,020 going to do replace all of these devices and more with matter and to be fair he 32 00:02:36,020 --> 00:02:41,380 has some of the fundamentals in place oh oh an Apple TV this is good this is 33 00:02:41,380 --> 00:02:46,460 gonna be perfect for us cuz you need a thread router for matter and that's what 34 00:02:46,460 --> 00:02:51,860 this is this is the Ethernet one that's why I bought it I actually paid extra to get the one with Ethernet and the newest one to make sure it had this 35 00:02:51,860 --> 00:02:56,060 thread support this is gonna be good too because whizbulbs secretly support 36 00:02:56,060 --> 00:03:01,380 matter what despite no markings on the box this is a little scatterbrain and 37 00:03:01,380 --> 00:03:05,820 hopefully my setup will be better 38 00:03:06,100 --> 00:03:12,100 don't do that you didn't tell me to follow you before we get into what I 39 00:03:12,100 --> 00:03:16,220 bought I just want to say that finding matter devices is still quite hard here 40 00:03:16,220 --> 00:03:20,540 in Canada the selection is grim worse still the labeling isn't always right 41 00:03:20,540 --> 00:03:24,940 for instance these Phillips whizbulbs from Home Depot have no mention of 42 00:03:24,940 --> 00:03:29,140 matter on the product page yet they arrived with the logo and codes on the 43 00:03:29,140 --> 00:03:34,620 box meanwhile this GE sync bulb from Amazon shows matter support but the one 44 00:03:34,620 --> 00:03:38,060 they shipped didn't 45 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:44,980 okay Jake this is what I was able to find that supports matter this is all the 46 00:03:44,980 --> 00:03:49,500 matter products that exist yeah and then I could get here in Canada so smart 47 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:53,860 plug wise there was one option on Amazon which was the TP-Link CASA but 48 00:03:53,860 --> 00:03:59,700 they weren't available so I had to go and find these morose smart plugs or me 49 00:03:59,700 --> 00:04:07,300 Ross no you're Jake you have whizbulbs which is good Phillips also makes whiz 50 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:12,340 bulbs okay this is not a leaf bulb supports matter but also supports thread 51 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:17,100 which is a wireless protocol within matter and everyone was complaining about 52 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:20,580 these on Amazon giving the bad reviews and I don't know if that's because they 53 00:04:20,580 --> 00:04:24,460 support thread and they just don't have the thread stuck so you had goby 54 00:04:24,460 --> 00:04:27,540 string lights that don't support matter now gov make string lights that support 55 00:04:27,540 --> 00:04:31,060 matter these are the first matter devices from them sweet here you don't know 56 00:04:31,060 --> 00:04:35,580 what switchbot is no never well this is kind of nifty they make a smart lock that 57 00:04:35,580 --> 00:04:41,460 goes in front of your existing lock hmm and they make a motorized blind tilt 58 00:04:41,940 --> 00:04:45,620 that'll be perfect that's powered by a solar panel but the thing is none of 59 00:04:45,620 --> 00:04:48,940 these individually support matter to get it to support matter you still have to 60 00:04:48,940 --> 00:04:54,540 get their hub oh okay and the annoying thing is with matter even if you have 61 00:04:54,540 --> 00:05:03,780 like a Phillips hue that supports matter you still need to use your Phillips hue hub so it's hubs upon hubs hub on my right oh yeah Eve we got these motion 62 00:05:03,780 --> 00:05:10,820 sensors you talked about wanting those even though this says it supports apple home kit it does support matter but you have to convert it to matter and then you 63 00:05:10,820 --> 00:05:14,820 can never bring it back to home kit ever again I hope I like matter okay so 64 00:05:14,820 --> 00:05:20,420 what about this well you asked for a smart display so I got you this it does 65 00:05:20,420 --> 00:05:26,100 it support matter it does and thread oh perfect what do you think of the set I 66 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:36,420 I hope it works me too let's let's try getting it set up okay here we go this 67 00:05:36,460 --> 00:05:43,660 should be easier to set up because we have the QR codes you ready do you want 68 00:05:43,660 --> 00:05:49,500 to do the honors or yeah this is the real benefit of matter a simple setup all 69 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:58,020 you have to do is open up the app that you want to control your smart home in our case apple home and scan the code it is that easy but there are things to 70 00:05:58,020 --> 00:06:04,700 watch out for so all of the Wi-Fi controlled whiz bulbs work on 2.4 71 00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:08,140 gigahertz networks and so if you set them up you have to be on the 2.4 gigs 72 00:06:08,140 --> 00:06:13,460 network and your matter hub has to also be on that network so we'll see how this 73 00:06:13,460 --> 00:06:20,580 works I'm done what do you mean you're done I'm done what I'm done oh it's 74 00:06:20,580 --> 00:06:24,220 working it's working I already named it and everything when I arrive turn on when 75 00:06:24,220 --> 00:06:29,940 I leave turn off this is working better than when I was trying to done lounge 76 00:06:30,700 --> 00:06:42,100 bam bam colors wow that is thinking of purple oh there we go I'm really excited 77 00:06:42,100 --> 00:06:46,220 this is great this is great I'm liking it so far okay so let's try the bedroom 78 00:06:46,220 --> 00:06:54,900 ones which you already have set up in your whiz app yeah we'll have to do the whiz thing right all right so I clicked on the matter button I'm telling you how 79 00:06:54,900 --> 00:06:57,980 to do things you're trying to be a little smart Alec like you know everything I 80 00:06:58,020 --> 00:07:02,340 do while the Phillips whiz bulbs we bought have the QR codes the whiz 81 00:07:02,340 --> 00:07:06,500 branded ones don't this feels wrong because it means that you have to first 82 00:07:06,500 --> 00:07:10,220 connect the bulbs to the whiz app before you can put it into a special pairing 83 00:07:10,220 --> 00:07:15,300 mode and get the code from there there's no add to home button okay just copy the 84 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:23,380 number oh no you have to hit start set up because you get 15 minutes oh okay okay 85 00:07:23,380 --> 00:07:32,500 now you can go to the home wow it literally is a 15 minute timer that's crazy I don't understand why they do this the next issue is just how long it 86 00:07:32,500 --> 00:07:39,940 takes to connect there's a lot of sitting around and waiting and if something 87 00:07:39,940 --> 00:07:45,660 goes wrong you have to start the whole process over again and if it doesn't 88 00:07:45,660 --> 00:07:54,260 work then well then you're in a troubleshooting hole it didn't connect it 89 00:07:54,260 --> 00:07:57,380 actually failed so I'm trying again but it's still saying connecting not 90 00:07:57,380 --> 00:08:02,940 setting up so that's not a good sign one of the weird things on it is it says IPv6 91 00:08:02,940 --> 00:08:07,500 network required do you know what that is Wi-Fi 6 no I didn't know what it was 92 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:12,100 either but essentially it's a different form of IP address it's a newer one and 93 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:16,700 you have to make sure that's turned on on your router well I do have some good 94 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:20,540 news I have some of the stuff from my upcoming AMD upgrade including a new 95 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:26,060 ubiquity Wi-Fi 7 router can I just go in the Wi-Fi config of your or the 96 00:08:26,060 --> 00:08:29,380 route config of your regular router you have right now well if I'm gonna switch 97 00:08:29,380 --> 00:08:36,260 routers in like a week we should probably set it up on this one hey you know 98 00:08:36,260 --> 00:08:40,500 what that means because if the network is named let's just name it the same 99 00:08:40,500 --> 00:08:44,540 thing so you're gonna have a ubiquity router named D-Link blah blah blah John 100 00:08:44,540 --> 00:08:48,300 that I told you I switch your routers we should have done this differently this 101 00:08:48,340 --> 00:08:54,740 turned out to be a much bigger problem IPv6 is the bane of network administrators 102 00:08:54,740 --> 00:08:59,660 everywhere because it's so confusing so how is a normal person supposed to 103 00:08:59,660 --> 00:09:04,500 figure this out for instance full IPv6 support actually requires your 104 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:08,740 internet service provider to be on board and unfortunately for us Bell's 105 00:09:08,740 --> 00:09:12,860 doesn't support it you'll have to double check your router to I managed to 106 00:09:12,860 --> 00:09:16,460 find the setting for Bell's D-Link router but the fancy-pants ubiquity was not as 107 00:09:16,460 --> 00:09:25,100 obvious at first glance is that it's like a search function oh my god they 108 00:09:25,100 --> 00:09:29,300 really pay wall to this support thread 109 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:39,860 just return it all I'll go back to different apps I'm good thank you so 110 00:09:39,860 --> 00:09:44,620 much for watching make sure it's going to back address leave a comment on what 111 00:09:44,620 --> 00:09:49,780 mattered products you have at your house and what I should do for my house no I'm 112 00:09:49,780 --> 00:09:55,980 not gonna give up because when the LTT team went back for Jake's AMD upgrade I 113 00:09:55,980 --> 00:10:02,380 snuck in and worked on getting his house set up come hell or high water it turns 114 00:10:02,380 --> 00:10:07,140 out that setting the IPv6 to local connections only without the whole ISP 115 00:10:07,140 --> 00:10:12,460 setup brings matter to life and we found the IPv6 checkbox hidden in the 116 00:10:12,500 --> 00:10:16,860 Ubiquity config web page so I was actually having success getting everything 117 00:10:16,860 --> 00:10:20,620 connected but by God was it a pain in the neck it took the better part of the 118 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:26,300 whole day but when it was done it all worked 119 00:10:29,740 --> 00:10:33,900 you know when it works it truly is magical like walking into my house the 120 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:37,580 lights are on leaving the house and I'm to worry about it really is cool doesn't 121 00:10:37,580 --> 00:10:42,420 work all the time no but when it does it is exactly what I want it gonna have 122 00:10:42,420 --> 00:10:47,980 guests come over and be like wow the nano leaf light every single time worked 123 00:10:47,980 --> 00:10:53,140 flawlessly absolutely flawlessly the gov stuff worked really well but I think 124 00:10:53,140 --> 00:10:58,660 that clearly requires a lot of effort from brands and brands don't have a 125 00:10:58,660 --> 00:11:01,900 reason to do that right now it is cool having most everything in the home app 126 00:11:01,900 --> 00:11:05,060 there was even times where I found the home app was more helpful than the apps 127 00:11:05,060 --> 00:11:10,580 for the dedicated product so I deleted all the apps for dedicated products the 128 00:11:10,580 --> 00:11:19,100 only problem is that not all the features from those apps are in the home app so for my lock for example I can set auto unlock and lock when I leave the 129 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:25,460 home but I can't change how fast the door auto locks after it's been opened so 130 00:11:25,460 --> 00:11:30,140 right now it's 10 seconds so by the time home detects that I'm near my 131 00:11:30,140 --> 00:11:33,820 apartment it unlocks the doors and then relocks by the time I get there so I 132 00:11:33,820 --> 00:11:38,520 have to tell Siri to unlock the door so my bathroom setup has an eve motion 133 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:43,720 sensor and light sensor and then I have three whiz bulbs above my mirror for the 134 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,880 lights in the room so that when I walk in it turns on automatically and I also 135 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,560 have it set so if it's between like 11 and 5 a.m. the lights only turn on to 136 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:53,560 10% brightness so you don't blind yourself go into the bathroom but if 137 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:59,120 you're not constantly moving the lights turn off some things almost never work 138 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:04,120 my fairy lights with the smart plug the morrow smart plug don't work like at all 139 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:08,240 but I had a bunch of issues setting up the Google side of matter put it in 140 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:13,080 pairing mode in the home app go into the Google app and accept the pairing 141 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:17,320 pretty much it failed every time I tried it I think that even though it was long 142 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,720 and arduous to get everything set up I don't know how much more time it would 143 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,160 have saved to not have been matter I feel like it's just smart home stuff in 144 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:29,600 general kind of just is a pain to set up thanks for switching on this Mac Address 145 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:34,200 I'm curious what sort of experiences you've had with your smart home and if 146 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,280 matter is helped and what sort of setup you have you can comment below and if 147 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:46,520 you want to watch another video that's connectivity related you can see the one where I talk about the history of Wi-Fi and how instrumental Apple was to it