maxym
December 3, 2021, 7:39am
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HeyImAlex:
Edit: there’s another big advantage with both zwave/zigbee over Wifi I forgot to mention : direct association. Both protocols allow you to directly link devices together, like switches, lights, motion sensors, etc. They will still be fully controllable from HA but will also continue functioning if your HA system goes down. They allow what I like to call ‘dumb fallback’, the house falls back into a non-smart mode if the central controller fails or is turned off for some reason. Rather than becoming totally non-functional, as it would be with Wifi devices.
Again, too much generalization. I have all my lights controlled by wifi relays mounted behind physical switches. this way my lighting is still controllable without ha or wifi. wifi bulbs are different story though.
BTW 433MHz is completely insecure
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