KNX

Um, yes, I, I was.

Um, when we were renovating this home, we put in, uh, KNX.

Mm-hmm.

So we, we started to...

Yeah

... looked like and worked like.

So we have mostly, uh, KNX devices here, but um, I started early on covering the whole Matter journey when-

Yeah

We are not adding promises beyond the release notes, but the change is clearly about better matching.

If your home runs on KNX, the KNX integration now brings its own set of AI tools.

These can be handed to a conversation agent or to an AI app through the Model Context Protocol server.

Those tools can query group addresses, devices, and functions in your ETS project, go through the history of telegrams on your bus, decode a value you do not recognize, and even read and write values on the bus directly.

For advanced KNX users, the important caveat is obvious.

Reading and writing values on the bus is powerful.

Use that power carefully.

Absolutely.

But just to return, uh, which protocols matter? You already mentioned DALI, uh, you already mentioned KNX.

Um, which protocols matter, uh, most to you and why? Uh, and maybe, uh, also how do you see, uh, you know, the up and coming Matter protocol in this, in this whole story?

Mm-hmm.

There, there are gray s- gray scales, right, in the life.

Yeah.

I mean, even Lox- Loxone even has a KNX extension, I think.

Uh, so-

So if you want to ask it to play something, instead of blindly playing the first search result, it will now get a list of results and will pick the best match across, uh, supported services that you've linked into Home Assistant.

And as a bonus, if your home uses KNX, your AI can now dig into the KNX, uh, stuff too.

So the KNX integration brings its own set of artificial intelligence tools, which you can hand to your conversation agent or to your AI app through that MCP server.

Um, yeah, lot of love, uh, for AI this release, which is great to see.

Yeah.

I don't know a ton of people using KNX, but [chuckles] that is actually a pretty cool, uh, pretty cool-

Yeah

... uh, connection there, right? So that's neat.

Let's get specific on connectivity standards because there's real movement here, and we also talked about how important interconnectivity and standards are.

How far have standards like, let's say Matter, Thread, KNX, IoT, and BACnet actually progressed in enabling truly interoperable buildings?

So I was, I was looking into Matter and Thread and, you know, uh, BACnet, this is building automation communication abbreviation.

Um, how far are they? Because I remember them from the past, and I heard many times that not everything is so pink [chuckles] as they would like to say.

And if you find another device in the network, you can then keep routing through that and chain as all you want to.

Uh, on most European networks, it's called KNX, and it's a little bit different.

It's not quite as actively routed.

In both cases, you're establishing yourself as a remote foreign router to the network, and then routing your own traffic into it over these bizarre protocols.