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?

  • peregus@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I love ZigBee sensors basically because they can run years with a coin battery, and I don’t dislike WiFi devices that are connected to the power, I just put them in a VLAN with no Internet access.