Tom Merritt

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2,109 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 12 Aug

Tom Merritt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The FrogPants Studios Ultra Feed! · TMS 3012: Randy McNally · 20 May 2026 podcast

Um, and and we'll get back to our conversation just now about your older stuff, uh, because that that is important to this. voice-verified

But the matter standard, which we've talked a lot about on DTNS, but if you're unfamiliar, is like USB or Bluetooth. voice-verified

Uh, it is a standard that all of the makers of smart home devices have agreed to. voice-verified

To support. voice-verified

And it's been rolling out for a few years now. voice-verified

So it's it's really got a good base of support. voice-verified

They're adding product categories that support it all the time to the standards base. voice-verified

So right now, all of the major hubs, Echo, Apple Home, Google Home, all of that stuff, supports Matter. voice-verified

And Thread, which is the way that they voice-verified

connect. voice-verified

So so there's there's you don't really need to know about thread. voice-verified

The re only reason you even really need to know about matter is so that you look and see, oh, am I buying something new enough to be matter compliant? voice-verified

And frankly, if it's even a couple of years old it's matter compliant. voice-verified

It would have to be really, really old for it not to be with a few exceptions. voice-verified

So you make sure you're buying something that's matter compliant. voice-verified

Uh you need a what's called a border router, uh, which uh is a horrible name for people. voice-verified

Like it makes sense in an engineering sense, but uh people are like, oh, I need to so I need to put it at the edge of my house. voice-verified

It's a no, it's not that. voice-verified

It's just something that will let all of the matter uh components talk to each other. voice-verified

And the best part is you probably have one uh because they've voice-verified

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