Sonoff SwitchMan M5 brings Matter support

[@pjmccracken]

I'd highly doubt it. personally I'd much rather flash it and have full control of the device and firmware.

[@big-ted-01]

Matter still suffers from losing extra features when you leave the manufactures app

[@flonou]

I would still use esphome, so that I can detect single, double, triple and long presses and have them either control the internal relay directly or send events to home assistant if I need more complex control of something

[@madhudson1]

I take it there's no way to decouple/detach them from the relay like you can with their ZB M5 switches?

[@JasGawera]

I'd probably still flash with tasmota - only because EVERY switch and plug (about 26) in my house is tasmota. If they are tasmota then I'm not sure how much use matter is for me, they are all detected by home assistant via mqtt. Or is it that if using matter, I wouldn't need to enter wifi and mqtt details?

[@eberger02]

Matter over wifi or Matter over Thread? Matter over wifi for devices that already had a local mode seems pretty pointless to me if you already own an iHost to Matter Bridge them. Bet even the old switches appear as matter switches to anyone with an iHost. If it was matter over thread they could also work over that network, thereby strengthening the mesh network and (I think) you can link a wall-switch and bulb directly instead or relying on a wifi-switch to pass on the message. These just look like switches that take up space on your router. As the newer ESP 32 chips with built in Thread/Zigbee radios become more commonplace I expect Thread to be more widely used and then unless tasmota adopts Thread it will die.

[@notenoughtech]

I think the question here is more about the control over Matter router - then having your devices simply supporting Matter as end devices. I agree with you with Local LAN the consideration isn't comms between devices but the ewelink cloud which ppl don't like using in fav of custom automation support

[@michaelnikhael]

Hi! Can you please confirm that the switch channels can be used as a condition in other device scenes? For example, some other relay turns on if channel 2 is on. Thanks!

[@clairerovic]

I use Tasmota devgroups & rules with Tasmota globes. No middle man required, so yes still need it.

[@notenoughtech]

It's one way to do it. I personally keep my groups at the higher level as then I only manage it from one level. Your approach would work for home automation but doesn't scale up well (doesn't need to if you are at that level). So for example y If you were to change the protocol to matter on a single device... My way would have groups intact... Yours continues on tasmota support. Something to bear in mind

[@clairerovic]

@@notenoughtech You are 100% correct with scaling & new tech. Having 68 Tas devices around the house & 7 NSPanels with @JoBr integration works exceptionally well and no middle man So I am currently very careful about the next solution, though the day will come when I have to bite the bullet. Plus tech is getting better each day with local LLMs, 2450 presence sensor & esp32 S3 voice, who now's how smart I can make it

[@andrekcamilleri]

Will these work with smart bulbs? So do they keep power to the bulbs or does the switch cut out the power completely?

[@notenoughtech]

You don't use smart bulbs when you have smart switches. They cut the power to the bulb.

[@Shellyfi]

Per default only option is to toggle relay, with tasmota (and ESPhome) switch & relay can detach and have alternative control options with multi/long push. Have fallback to direct control when connection to server is lost. All those are not an option with matter or evelink

[@notenoughtech]

Detach depends purely on hardware but I agree with other statements.

[@albertvanwessel]

Do not use a full metal screwdriver when working with mains , if you forget to turn mains of you are screwed😅

[@notenoughtech]

Good tip.. although for demos and filming I rarely have things connected. As you could see from my "accidents" learned the hard way 😆

[@AndreasSchildbach-o8d]

I wonder are there screwdrivers that only use non-conductive materials, or is metal always necessary?

[@WoLpH]

@@AndreasSchildbach-o8d There are plastic screwdrivers but in almost all cases (even electrical work) you want a metal shank to make it last more than a few uses. A standard insulated screwdriver can easily keep you safe from 1000+ volt without any danger to the user since most of the shank is also insulated.

[@AndreasSchildbach-o8d]

I would certainly use Tasmota. It is frequently updated with new features and pretty much guarantees compatibility to all the foss ecosystems. I must say I'm disappointed that Sonoff didn't add Thread. And a more tactile switching experience. Especially the cheap feel of the click keeps me from rolling out SwitchMans to all the rooms of my flat - I'm waiting for something that feels more like a mechanical keyboard.

[@notenoughtech]

Don't get me wrong, but these are as barebone as it gets, hence my point about not bothering with Tasmota. Personally, I can't really think of anything I would need from them that I cannot resolve with custom Matter router

[@i0001w]

Do I need cloud service for schedule light,? So if i lost internet does schedule stops ?

[@notenoughtech]

When used with eWeLink it will retain the schedules (this is why you have limit of 8 if I remember correctly) I'm not sure about Matter connection with other systems

[@bradster00]

You should always flash if you can... Then you actually have full control over it without needing multiple bridges

[@BizGuzlur]

I'm confused... I use Tasmota for its MQTT features, would this still be available with Matter?

[@notenoughtech]

Think of matter in the same way you think of MQTT. If you have a matter hub connected (weather it's the DIY solution or branded ecosystem) you have a way to talk to the device and receive data. This can be acted upon or relayed to MQTT etc. MQTT was a common protocol to bridge various devices and make them talk. Matter does just that

[@ronm6585]

Thanks Mat.

[@TD-er]

I wonder whether the flash / bootloader might be encrypted now they do use Matter. The Matter specification/certification demands keys to be stored encrypted. So it might be made quite a lot harder to flash your own firmware if they did encrypt the flash (thus burnt a fuse to enable encryption)

[@notenoughtech]

That's a good point. May save some time to see if the process works just as well as on original ones

[@stephanhadinger3366]

@@notenoughtech Yes they are supposed to be locked and encrypted, otherwise it would be possible to extract the certificate from the device manufacturer

[@malves61]

@@notenoughtech So, did you have the chance to test if you can tasmotize the M5 Matter already?

[@notenoughtech]

Not yet. It's I'll be a couple of weeks before I have some time

[@malves61]

@@notenoughtech Cool, thank you for taking this effort. Looking forward to your tests.

[@74357175]

If you don't want to be accused of "clickbaiting", then summarize your point at the beginning, rather than drawing out the video. Or accept that you are doing the clickbait. :)

[@notenoughtech]

Chapters, chapters, chapters, chapters, chapters, chapters

[@74357175]

​@@notenoughtech No. Chapters are a solution to another problem: finding specific info. Good journalism and good technical writing puts the abstract at the beginning, and then drills down.

[@notenoughtech]

Of course they are. They give you instant access to the part of the video you find most important to you if you decide that my order of explaining things doesn't confront your liking. On top of that there is an article written to accompany the video so you can access the same information without even hitting the play button. And the last point is: I never share my videos. I always share the link to the article which defines how I present the information I have to pass

[@74357175]

@@notenoughtech the article suffers from the same problem: it asks the question but doesn't answer it in the introduction.

[@74357175]

@@notenoughtech look man, you can act like this, bit then don't be surprised if people are upset that you are doing the clickbait game 🙂

[@abdullahX001]

Crazy.. no dimming control!

[@notenoughtech]

Dimming is hard, suprisingly hard. It's easy to do if you control whole circuit, but hard if you are offering just a switch and leave bulb to the customer. The average person will assume that the switch is shit if dimming isn't working due to compatibility mismatch between this and the bulb and will end up in a lot of negative feedback for no reason - Iunderstand why they didnt risk it

[@peterpalupski]

Thanks for the video!

[@notenoughtech]

Thank you for watching

[@stephanhadinger3366]

I'm not sure we should oppose Matter and Tasmota. It's good value indeed to have ready-to-use devices that don't need opening nor flashing; like we had somehow with Zigbee. To the point that Tasmota is also compatible with Matter: turn a Tasmota device as a Matter end-device, or use Tasmota on ESP32 to expose ESP8266 devices as Matter devices

[@notenoughtech]

I love Tasmota, I'm sure you know this from my videos, but I'm also practical. If this was something like Sonoff TX Ultimate and I had to give away support for the RGB outline - I probably wouldn't settle for basic Matter edition - but it's the most basic of the switches and at this point it just feels like I'm losing only my time :)

[@AndreasSchildbach-o8d]

And also why did it take them 2 years to release a white version? And we still need a version that can be clustered vertically rather than only horizontally.

[@notenoughtech]

I have no idea why the hold up on colours. You'd think that this is as simple as changing the material for the moulds

[@ryanjcole]

I will never use the default firmware if I have to use eWe Link to get it going. So... Tasmota is the way to go.

[@htoma]

let's see:P

[@notenoughtech]

:) enjoy the video!

[@htoma]

@@notenoughtech concusion . no is not the end , at least not 4 me and in my condry we don't have neutral wire in the swith box .... i w8 for no neutral version.

[@notenoughtech]

It's likely to be the ZigBee one that has no neutral version