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When I started I had a good mix of all 3 (WiFi, Zigbee & Z-wave). 5 years layer, everything's slowly been absorbed into Zigbee. WiFi isn't a mesh network, so th

When I started I had a good mix of all 3 (WiFi, Zigbee & Z-wave). 5 years layer, everything's slowly been absorbed into Zigbee. WiFi isn't a mesh network, so there's extremities with poor reliability. Z-wave just seemed to suffer from poor device availability, and everything turned out to be more expensive with no real benefit. Also, one other thing to mention with WiFi and Bluetooth is how it's basically a massive red flag, a stamp of "hey, this device needs our shit app to use." It's just a shame there's no Zigbee ESP32 equivalent for all my hobby bits.

shellfishgene 3y ago
There is [1], but it's not open source and 'advanced' functions, like battery operation, cost money. Also this [2] project is promising, but in the early stages I think. Also I guess newer ESP32 support zigbee in principle, there is some discussion of adding this to ESPHome. [1] https://ptvo.info/zigbee-configurable-firmware-features/ https://ptvo.info/zigbee-configurable-firmware-features/ [2] https://github.com/ffenix113/zigbee_home https://github.com/ffenix113/zigbee_home