Z-wave/Zigbee are complicated but a necessary evil since wifi and batteries don't play well together. You might want to look into https://github.com/OpenZWave/

Z-wave/Zigbee are complicated but a necessary evil since wifi and batteries don't play well together. You might want to look into https://github.com/OpenZWave/Zwave2Mqtt https://github.com/OpenZWave/Zwave2Mqtt and other projects like it to give you the nice mqtt control over zwave.