Today we are excited to announce that Jasco has joined the Works with Home Assistant program as a Z-Wave partner.
Jasco is well known in the US for their Z-Wave switches and plugs. As a partner, Jasco and Nabu Casa will be working together to ensure the best experience for connecting Jasco Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.
Jasco devices connect and integrate into Home Assistant using the Z-Wave integration (Z-Wave stick required). This means that connected Jasco devices work completely local and updates coming from the device are instantaneously reflected in Home Assistant. This allows for the best user experience when building your smart home.
One of Jascoâs claim to fame in the Home Assistant community is being the first company to provide firmware files (for 77 devices!) to the Z-Wave JS firmware update server. This service is used by Home Assistant to keep your devices secure. It is used to automatically detect if any of your Z-Wave devices have an updated firmware available and offer users to upgrade it.
I have a mix of them, but i still have a fibaro controller just for the updates and also for zwave. I donât use zwave-js (i know bad etc) but hey it works for me, thats the nice part about it all.
Itâs great to see more and more names joining the program, even if I canât purchase these in my country.
I just have a suggestion: Some blog posts might go unseen for users, so there should be a page or some category on the integrations that shows off all the partners already registered and state that support for these is directly with the manufacturer.
Curious, why just z-wave? Jasco also makes a great line of in-wall Zigbee switches that Iâve been quite happy with. Physically I think theyâre very similar to the Z-wave line.
I see your standpoint but I would rather the tight standardisation of Z-Wave to the better specs of ZigBee.
Iâve just got too many devices to risk any sort of technical issue. I firmly believe thatâs how a house should be set up and I personally avoid anything other than Z -wave, even ZigBee.
You see it a lot in the USB 4 Vs Thunderbolt 4. Iâm moving to Thunderbolt 4 from USB because of similar reasons (TB4 is essentially a âsupersetâ of USB now BTW). AFAIK there are 30+ implementations of USB-C and thatâs on top of flexible standardisation and furthermore manufacturers selling uncertified/out of spec hardware.The weakest link in the chain breaks the whole pipelineâŚI donât want that with a light switch .