submitted 2 months 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 2 months 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.

[-] c10l@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I have high hopes for Matter but as it stands today it’s a pretty big mess and usability is generally horrible.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Oh? I run 40 Matter devices and they've been pretty great. The downside is that they don't mesh or act as repeaters as Zigbee does. Simple setup via HA as well.

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