Matter and Thread don’t randomly “break”. Most of the time — your IPv6 network isn’t ready.

Gah. I feel like I have to debug thread pairing every time I get a new device… I definitely haven’t checked my router settings though…

  • Archer@lemmy.world
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    8 天前

    Engineers did actually anticipate this, y’know. There are IPv6 privacy extensions and Windows auto randomizes your MAC now

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      Great in theory, not so great for simple automations like seeing of people are home based on connected MAC addresses instead of relying on an app (that can’t even run on the background consistently on modern mobile OSes).