Curious if there’s anyone out there as crazy as me and a couple of my nerd friends at our church… We are attempting to engineer a cost effective whole building automation solution able to be managed in HA with Z-Wave 800 LR devices w/ repeaters (for their reliability) as the primary backbone. (We’ll still deploy Zigbee 3.0, Wifi, hardline POE and anything else necessary to achieve a bespoke solution to a problem though if we have to, our building is just already a 2.4Ghz nightmare from the local Radio Station up the street, so we’re hoping to rely on that band sparingly.)
With a staff of 40+, and volunteer network of about 600+, we easily have over 100 doors on our single building campus with varying levels of access and security needed, and a desire to track access events on as granular a level possible.
Before we jump headlong into the abyss, I just thought I’d ask as general a question as I can reign myself in to ask…
… Is HA (with a properly powerful local server to meet processing demand) robust enough to manage that many Z-Wave enabled smart door locks, with unique access codes (as many types as possible, facial, finger, hand, pin, fob, digital, etc) for that many users… reliably?… or at all?
I’m just curious if anyone out there is as crazy as we are, or if anyone thinks it’s just crazy enough to be possible, based on the fact Home Assistant IS in fact powerful enough to manage that kind of unique level of traffic and variables reliably!
A close second to this question is of course what door lock hardware is available today that is robust enough to handle that level of demand either? Upon initial research, most advanced locks, even Lockly Pro’s suedo-enterprise solution with management software/subscription, seem to cap out at 100 unique fingerprints, codes, fobs, etc or less.
Any insight is immensely helpful, and I so appreciate anyone who took the time to read this in advance. 