For me that promise was why I dived into but the reality was very different. When buying a random ZigBee device it’s normally hit and miss and not plug and play. Some powered devices just don’t act repeater for the “mesh” and others need custom quirks and hours of research to even get basic functions.
Again pure marketing speech from my mileage. It might work if you start directly with 1 ZigBee devices every 5m² of your house but If you start with only one device per room you will find yourself buying more and more plugs (you don’t even need) just to get a somewhat acceptable mesh.
Both wasn’t necessary in my case and I don’t know anyone one who doesn’t have already WiFi at home.
And low range etc.
I would really have to read the summary from Hedda before I invested so much time in ZigBee just to find out it didn’t was up to the task in my case.
This is what I did. And I got rid of all my ZigBee stuff which was so time intense to get it even half working.
Esphome is the opposite, it’s predictable, reprocuable and just works (it did what ZigBee claimed).
Isn’t esphome a no-code solution or am I already a programmer? xD
Also it’s already 2023 and we got DHCP, no need for static IPs!