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?
My first couple of battery operated zwave devices were hard fails. Instantly offline and rarely came back. That was years ago now. I’ve got temp/humidity sensors and water/leak detectors going for a year now at 95% battery still. The new 800 series Zooz devices pretty much guarantee you won’t have range issues. I’ve never looked back after choosing zwave.
My network is more than capable of supporting Wi-Fi devices but i simply choose not to. It’s an attack vector i didn’t need and overkill for most devices.