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I'd assume the average person has no clue what Zigbee is. I know I'd never heard of it

• Izkata 7y ago
  Not sure what the general state is now, but as a brand name it was one of the top most popular for at least a good year or two, back when I first got interested in home automation. (The other two at the time were Z-Wave and X10, with X10 recommended against as obsolete/dying; I ended up settling on Z-Wave, so I stopped paying attention to Zigbee and other competitors)
• Semaphor 7y ago
  From what I’ve read, Zigbee is for the rest of the world what Z-Wave is for the US, in terms of market share. Not sure how accurate that is, but from what I’ve seen, there are a lot more Zigbee devices here in Germany than Z-Wave, while most US sites talk about Z-Wave.
  • roel_v 7y ago
    What Zigbee devices can you buy apart from Hue lamps? ZWave has been dominant for many years because there are hardly any Zigbee devices, be it in the US or in the EU. FWIW I'm in the Netherlands and have all ZWave, and when you look at e.g. the symcon.de forums, there are plenty of ZWave users in the EU (and Germany specifically).
    • fyfy18 7y ago
      IKEA Tradfri devices are probably the biggest user of ZigBee.
      • whatusername 7y ago
        Xiaomi Aqara Amazon Echo Plus etc as a Zigbee hub Tradfri/HomeSmart from Ikea I'm not sure I see much z-wave stuff (at least here in Australia)
    • Semaphor 7y ago
      Looking at amazon.de, I see switches, dimmers, thermostats, plugs, motion/humidity/pressure sensor and of course lights. And Google Trends has zigbee far higher up than z-wave for google trends in Germany [0] vs USA [1} [0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=DE&q=zigbee,z-wave https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=DE&q=zigbee,z-w... [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=zigbee,z-wave https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=zigbee,z-w...