alt Hacker NewsOh this is incredible.. HaLow has been one of my favorite new wireless tech implementations, and I feel almost like a preacher with how much I have been pushing the gospel to the people around me for the last ~2 years. being introduced into the kernel should really help integration and usage. I am just hoping chips start being produced by more than one (?) company eventually for more market capture. Any thoughts on that front?
I'm not the expert in this area, but the current state of play AFAIK in terms of working chips is:
- Morse Micro - Newracom - Taixin are mostly not compliant (but cheap) - Amazon have a proprietary not quite compatible HaLow in their Blink cameras
There's varying levels of interest in WFA compliance/interop. Morse and Newracom are the most interoperable, but even then there are gotchas.
The Morse ones, are, of course, the best ;)
Aside from upstreaming, one of the other things we're chasing is a better regulatory environment. In particular, the EU S1G bands are very tightly constrained.