Hello I want to start adding more home sensors to my HA setup. I’m still quite a noob to home automation so I’m trying to find the best way forward. I have been looking a wifi products such as Shelley and Hey!, and also a multitude of Tuya products, or whether to go with something like Sonoff. Is…

Bit of an overstatement I think. I have both Zwave and Zigbee devices (via Wiser heating systems) Zigbee seems to be more sensitive to range issues and some devices will occasionally lose contact despite being within 5 or 6 metres of a mains powered Zigbee device. However the current lack of clarity…

I think you should figure out what you want to use the Zigbee Devices for. I have both zigbee and zwave devices for door and motion sensors. These are battery powered and often do not show an accurate status. I just bought a Sonoff contact and motion because they were cheap but the motion sensor bec…

I echo these comments. Up until recently I have been happy with my Zigbee kit however recently I have had a few problems with Ikea lamps not working reliably, a couple of Aqara sensors going unavailable, and button batteries on an Ikea remote running down in a couple of weeks. The problems seem to…

If you determine that the IKEA bulbs are causing your issue please let us know. Rather not bring another variable into it.

I have 4 x Ikea lamps and 1 x Ikea remote, just looked at my logs and there are a huge number of errors: Logger: homeassistant Source: /usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/runner.py:99 First occurred: 04:02:40 (6977 occurrences) Last logged: 14:45:15 Error doing job: Exception in callback Threadsaf…

Wow, that is quite a thread to read, I did not realize the flux that going on in zwave with HA. Frustrating as the zwave hardware seems to be moving forward in a more unified and open direction.

This is exactly why I purged all Zwave. Most of mine was older, so I just shut down what I was using, and tossed everything else. If it’s not Zigbee, it’ll be Wifi.

Tough call. I am not sure I agree with you that it is realistic and useful to say Zigbee and Wifi only. As a smart person once told me … ‘Life sucks and then we die.’ :wink: For example, I have found that inexpensive bluetooth BLE temperature/humidly sensors are the best way to monitor these attrib…

No one is arguing that there aren’t uses for all of these technologies. But all of these technologies come at a price (added complexity). I’d be interested to hear how you’re monitoring all of your BLE devices around the house? Yet another server installed nearby reporting back to HA? As for Sid…

To Zigbee or not

Third party integrations

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Can you provide a few examples of major smart home manufacturers who have done this?

FWIW, Home Assistant’s ZigBee integration is more mature than its zwave integration which is currently undergoing a complete change of direction.