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I currently have a SmartThings Hub and Homeassistant Yellow, but if I were starting over today, I'd be all in on Matter (mostly thread) and avoid ZWave and Zigbee outright. I'm mostly stuck to zwave because of my blinds, but I think I will slowly replace all my smart home related things with Matter.

There's still a few sensors that there don't have a Matter equivalent yet, but I think that'll change soon.

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Is the matter stuff more expensive, or about the same? There seem to be not that many products yet?

Relatively the same price, I'd say. But there's definitely not they many products out yet so maybe that will change.

I think the biggest difference in price I saw was from my Z-Wave blinds versus Thread / Matter ones. However, the overwhelming majority of the cost for that is the blinds themselves so it's probably not the best comparison.

I don't think Matter will add to price; for many devices, I suspect the opposite. The open-source Matter implementation (disclosure: I worked on bits of it) has wide support from silicon vendors. JoeBulbCo will basically be able to pick from a selection of high-volume ICs, run ‘make’, and ship it. JoeBulbCo competes on how good — or how cheap — their bulb is.

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