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ZigBee and Zwave? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week 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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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What kind of problems? So many others present it as virtually worry free.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Why does my fucking light not turn on, do i need to add yet another repeater or do i need to reset slzbw-06 yet again" kind of problems

Also at some point i discovered nothing at all works because homeassistant decided to give my network a new identity so I needed to pair everything again. My fault for not having this backed up, but it's not something that should happen in a system that's "worry free".

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I also haven’t seen any problems with either my z-wave mesh or my Zigbee mesh, but it’s an interesting tell that several network troubleshooting features have been added to Home Assistant over the last year or two