What are the best/cheap wall switches that work with zigbee and ha?
Does the sonoff touch work with ha?
Please let me know
What zigbee hub are you currently using?
They can, but these are not zigbee devices.
I am using raspberry pi 3 with raspbee.
It doesnāt have to be a zigbee device. I have the raspbee working on 2.4 GHz. So it must be something good and reliable what works with my raspbee
In my opinion, the 2.4 GHz is too crowded with interference to be classed as reliable. At my work, the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network is supplied āas-isā. The 5 GHz network is much more reliable.
That is why I am focusing on Z-Wave for my home automation. Less interference, more range, & designed for good battery life.
The problem with zwave in my current setup is that I canāt use my zigbee protocol like the Ikea tradferis. Or did I missed something?
zigbee2mqtt. Itāll cover all your popular protols with the one hub/router device, no need for a bunch of different usb dongles/hubs for different protcols. 
Wow. I am such a noob. Can you send me a link what hardware and software I need? Thanks in advance
Everybody starts somewhere!
Iām not too sure what level youāre at so Iād suggest give that a read. It does take some knowledge and some programming to get going, if you have some experience it shouldnt be too difficult. I managed to get mine up and running in one evening, and integrating sensors is easy once itās all set up.
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I have an entire house of Insteon switches, about (25). Theyāre not cheap, but the reason I chimed in here is because I just found out about the TP-Link Kasa lights, I ordered three of them, and they joined my Wifi network easily and are very responsive from within HA, but if you flip the switch itās several seconds before HA gets the status update.
Regarding WIFI, if you donāt have a lot of WIFI access points around you, and you have a strong mesh network, (I have 4 Google Wifi Pucks) I think itās pretty reliable, I have about 20 LIFX bulbs that use the WIFI and for the most part theyāre rock solid along with the TP-Link switches, you can find these for about $20 each.
Hope this helps
Cheers!
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Thank you for sending the documentations.
I am trying to find why zigbee2mqtt is better then the raspbee? So far couldnt find any answers on that question. Can you explain why zigbee2mqtt is better?
Z-Wave too?
I donāt think so. But I am not sureā¦ Letās wait and see what timpro says.
Regardless of the size of a Wi-Fi network, in the US there are only 3 non-overlapping 2.4 GHz channels (1, 6, 11). Many home APs just pick a random channel. 
I have a neighbor on channel 7 which interferes with 6 & 11. That just leaves me with channel 1. That is why I only have 2.4 GHz enabled on 1 of my 2 APs. If they were both on the same channel there would be co-channel interference.
I doubt it too, but they said ALL popular protocols. They website indicates otherwise/ This is oe requirement.
For what I know till now, there is not much difference between the zigbee2mqtt and the raspbee . They both support almost all zigbee protocol devices.
I could be wrong tho.
I think zigbee2mqtt can run on a different server but you are adding the mqtt protocol complexity.
I personally prefer to keep things as simple as reasonably possible.
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I donāt have experience with raspbeeā¦ But I do know that zigbee2mqtt only cost me about $15 for the hardware and it has a large following as far as support goes.
I donāt believe it supports z-wave (i originally thought it did, but after second glance i donāt believe it does).
If you look here, it will show you all the devices it supports. It supports Zigbee, Ikea Tradfri, Phillips Hue, and some others.
Iām not sure what support is like for raspbee, but if you end up running into problems with zigbee2mqtt guaranteeād someone will be able to help you out if you canāt find the answer online.
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Thank you very much for ur posts. I am going to try raspbee for a while, if things donāt go right or smooth I ll swap to zigbee2mqtt. Thanks again