HA platform versus Hubitat and Smartthings, reliability and usability?

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Would the summary then be as follows?

  • Run HA + NodeRed on a Rasp Pi 4 with a small SSD or otherwise on a old low power PC, NUC or laptop.

  • Instead of buying a Zigbee stick to plug in, buy a Sonoff ZB Bridge, flash with Tasmota and place de Sonoff Bridge at the best spot in the house for best coverage.

  • buy the cheap Sonoff Zigbee devices. There is perhaps the caveat that the ZB Bridge can support max 32 devices? Or can it be more if you flashed with Tasmota?

  • And if you also want to support wifi controller devices, buy as well the normal Sonoff RF bridge and link to HA platform.

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A few corrections :

  • The sonoff ZbBridge can support 32 direct children. If you have routers ( mains powered devices) in your ZigBee network, it can be more.
  • The sonoff Rf Bridge is used to bring 433 MHz devices into HA. To control WiFi devices, all you need is a regular WiFi access point ( which you probably already have)
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OK, that is great. The 32 ‘children’ of 1 ZB Bridge is thus not a real limitation if in practice you have 1 or more 110/230v powered devices in the network.
Thus the Sonoff RF and Zigbee Bridges are really useful in a HA managed network and cheap (ca $12-15)!

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