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Would a Raspberry Pi with PoE hat plus USB Z-wave stick (plus USB wifi radio, if you're looking for it to also be a "AP" and want better than out of the box wit
by dpifke 4y ago
Would a Raspberry Pi with PoE hat plus USB Z-wave stick (plus USB wifi radio, if you're looking for it to also be a "AP" and want better than out of the box with hostapd) work for you?
Z-wave's relay design makes hub placement less of an issue than with e.g. wifi, which is probably why you don't see much attention paid to mounting/appearance concerns. It doesn't much matter, so long as you have a device near the hub, then another device near that one, and so on.
- xattt 4y agoI do appreciate this suggestion and have considered it in the past. The spouse acceptance factor for mounting a computer board to the ceiling is low in my household. :) I hadn’t considered that the mesh nature of home control devices has negated the need for central placement.