Jonathan I need your help I have the worst smart home I have like six smart
lights I have a smart lock smart plugs and I have to have apps for everything
it doesn't just all show up in the home app on my iPhone and it is such a pain
by the way this emergency line such a great idea I'm gonna call it all the
time you never listen to me at the office oh and it'll be so cool you know
I'm right here it's 2024 there has to be an easier way to make this all work
together there is this is the problem with the smart home especially for Apple
users and it's why I barged into Jake's house because there's a fix do you have
an outlet for it probably over a year ago a brand new smart home standard was
released called matter it's a protocol that enables supported smart home
devices to talk to any supported smart home apps I'm eager to try it and Jake
is the perfect candidate so this is what you got a yeah you know it doesn't
look like a lot but it packs a punch no it doesn't these tech ins does this
support matter or home kit well likely not no I got them from Amazon matter is
especially important for us Apple users because not everything works for the
iPhone years ago Apple created their own standard called home kit it was a big
mess with hardware encryption requirements that no one wanted to
participate in they've loosened things up since then but even today home kit
requires MFI certification and there are a limited number of devices that
support it oh home kit that's pretty good yeah the only problem with that is I
bought it from Nicole at the office and it's linked to her house so I can
actually put it in my home kit and I've been too shy to ask her to remove it
despite Jake's situation I find home kit devices work quite well but you have
to watch out for everything else these are Wi-Fi RGB's it works with Alexa
worth the Google Google Assistant gov home app no Apple yep from my experience
most of the light bulbs at the store will have a Google and Alexa logo but
not the home kit one and that's if you're lucky because you can find ones
that don't have any logos at all newie there's not it doesn't even say it
works with anything other than app control well yeah before there wasn't
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
going to do replace all of these devices and more with matter and to be fair he
has some of the fundamentals in place oh oh an Apple TV this is good this is
gonna be perfect for us cuz you need a thread router for matter and that's what
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
thread support this is gonna be good too because whizbulbs secretly support
matter what despite no markings on the box this is a little scatterbrain and
hopefully my setup will be better
don't do that you didn't tell me to follow you before we get into what I
bought I just want to say that finding matter devices is still quite hard here
in Canada the selection is grim worse still the labeling isn't always right
for instance these Phillips whizbulbs from Home Depot have no mention of
matter on the product page yet they arrived with the logo and codes on the
box meanwhile this GE sync bulb from Amazon shows matter support but the one
they shipped didn't
okay Jake this is what I was able to find that supports matter this is all the
matter products that exist yeah and then I could get here in Canada so smart
plug wise there was one option on Amazon which was the TP-Link CASA but
they weren't available so I had to go and find these morose smart plugs or me
Ross no you're Jake you have whizbulbs which is good Phillips also makes whiz
bulbs okay this is not a leaf bulb supports matter but also supports thread
which is a wireless protocol within matter and everyone was complaining about
these on Amazon giving the bad reviews and I don't know if that's because they
support thread and they just don't have the thread stuck so you had goby
string lights that don't support matter now gov make string lights that support
matter these are the first matter devices from them sweet here you don't know
what switchbot is no never well this is kind of nifty they make a smart lock that
goes in front of your existing lock hmm and they make a motorized blind tilt
that'll be perfect that's powered by a solar panel but the thing is none of
these individually support matter to get it to support matter you still have to
get their hub oh okay and the annoying thing is with matter even if you have
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
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
can never bring it back to home kit ever again I hope I like matter okay so
what about this well you asked for a smart display so I got you this it does
it support matter it does and thread oh perfect what do you think of the set I
I hope it works me too let's let's try getting it set up okay here we go this
should be easier to set up because we have the QR codes you ready do you want
to do the honors or yeah this is the real benefit of matter a simple setup all
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
watch out for so all of the Wi-Fi controlled whiz bulbs work on 2.4
gigahertz networks and so if you set them up you have to be on the 2.4 gigs
network and your matter hub has to also be on that network so we'll see how this
works I'm done what do you mean you're done I'm done what I'm done oh it's
working it's working I already named it and everything when I arrive turn on when
I leave turn off this is working better than when I was trying to done lounge
bam bam colors wow that is thinking of purple oh there we go I'm really excited
this is great this is great I'm liking it so far okay so let's try the bedroom
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
to do things you're trying to be a little smart Alec like you know everything I
do while the Phillips whiz bulbs we bought have the QR codes the whiz
branded ones don't this feels wrong because it means that you have to first
connect the bulbs to the whiz app before you can put it into a special pairing
mode and get the code from there there's no add to home button okay just copy the
number oh no you have to hit start set up because you get 15 minutes oh okay okay
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
takes to connect there's a lot of sitting around and waiting and if something
goes wrong you have to start the whole process over again and if it doesn't
work then well then you're in a troubleshooting hole it didn't connect it
actually failed so I'm trying again but it's still saying connecting not
setting up so that's not a good sign one of the weird things on it is it says IPv6
network required do you know what that is Wi-Fi 6 no I didn't know what it was
either but essentially it's a different form of IP address it's a newer one and
you have to make sure that's turned on on your router well I do have some good
news I have some of the stuff from my upcoming AMD upgrade including a new
ubiquity Wi-Fi 7 router can I just go in the Wi-Fi config of your or the
route config of your regular router you have right now well if I'm gonna switch
routers in like a week we should probably set it up on this one hey you know
what that means because if the network is named let's just name it the same
thing so you're gonna have a ubiquity router named D-Link blah blah blah John
that I told you I switch your routers we should have done this differently this
turned out to be a much bigger problem IPv6 is the bane of network administrators
everywhere because it's so confusing so how is a normal person supposed to
figure this out for instance full IPv6 support actually requires your
internet service provider to be on board and unfortunately for us Bell's
doesn't support it you'll have to double check your router to I managed to
find the setting for Bell's D-Link router but the fancy-pants ubiquity was not as
obvious at first glance is that it's like a search function oh my god they
really pay wall to this support thread
just return it all I'll go back to different apps I'm good thank you so
much for watching make sure it's going to back address leave a comment on what
mattered products you have at your house and what I should do for my house no I'm
not gonna give up because when the LTT team went back for Jake's AMD upgrade I
snuck in and worked on getting his house set up come hell or high water it turns
out that setting the IPv6 to local connections only without the whole ISP
setup brings matter to life and we found the IPv6 checkbox hidden in the
Ubiquity config web page so I was actually having success getting everything
connected but by God was it a pain in the neck it took the better part of the
whole day but when it was done it all worked
you know when it works it truly is magical like walking into my house the
lights are on leaving the house and I'm to worry about it really is cool doesn't
work all the time no but when it does it is exactly what I want it gonna have
guests come over and be like wow the nano leaf light every single time worked
flawlessly absolutely flawlessly the gov stuff worked really well but I think
that clearly requires a lot of effort from brands and brands don't have a
reason to do that right now it is cool having most everything in the home app
there was even times where I found the home app was more helpful than the apps
for the dedicated product so I deleted all the apps for dedicated products the
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
home but I can't change how fast the door auto locks after it's been opened so
right now it's 10 seconds so by the time home detects that I'm near my
apartment it unlocks the doors and then relocks by the time I get there so I
have to tell Siri to unlock the door so my bathroom setup has an eve motion
sensor and light sensor and then I have three whiz bulbs above my mirror for the
lights in the room so that when I walk in it turns on automatically and I also
have it set so if it's between like 11 and 5 a.m. the lights only turn on to
10% brightness so you don't blind yourself go into the bathroom but if
you're not constantly moving the lights turn off some things almost never work
my fairy lights with the smart plug the morrow smart plug don't work like at all
but I had a bunch of issues setting up the Google side of matter put it in
pairing mode in the home app go into the Google app and accept the pairing
pretty much it failed every time I tried it I think that even though it was long
and arduous to get everything set up I don't know how much more time it would
have saved to not have been matter I feel like it's just smart home stuff in
general kind of just is a pain to set up thanks for switching on this Mac Address
I'm curious what sort of experiences you've had with your smart home and if
matter is helped and what sort of setup you have you can comment below and if
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