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?
Zigbee sucks and is a source of constant problems for me, but you can’t have a thumb sized door sensor using wifi, it uses too much energy.
What kind of problems? So many others present it as virtually worry free.
“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”.
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