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ZigBee and Zwave? (lemmy.world)
submitted 16 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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[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 5 points 15 hours ago

Can confirm that zigbee is much better for IOT things, I find the zigbee stuff is quicker to react to events as there is not WiFI setup. Some WiFi devices running on batterys will have lag while they get WiFi link back up.