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ZigBee and Zwave? (lemmy.world)
submitted 15 hours ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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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@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

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.