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ZigBee and Zwave? (self.homeassistant)

submitted 2 weeks ago by gedaliyah to c/homeassistant

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I see a lot of posts about people who like their Zigbee and Z-Wave products. As I'm setting up the hardware in my home, I'm using Wi-Fi products because I already have Wi-Fi. I don't see much difference in price. What is the actual benefit of setting up a separate network for home devices? Is there a reason that I should consider setting up one of these networks?

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[–] just_another_person 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Matter sort of makes Wifi more viable, but Zigbee is a proper mesh that generally works great. The more devices, the more reliable the network.

Zwave theoretically works similarly, but I've found it to have way more problems.

[–] c10l 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have high hopes for Matter but as it stands today it’s a pretty big mess and usability is generally horrible.

[–] just_another_person 1 points 1 week ago

Oh? I run 40 Matter devices and they've been pretty great. The downside is that they don't mesh or act as repeaters as Zigbee does. Simple setup via HA as well.