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Home assistant with zigbee, z-wave, or tasmota/esphome devices is pretty great.
by ProcNetDev 3y ago
Home assistant with zigbee, z-wave, or tasmota/esphome devices is pretty great.
- xnzakg 3y agoThis is definitely better than many of the alternatives but still not perfect. With Zigbee etc you end up locked into one or more of the ecosystems, not to mention some manufacturers implementing it in a way that has weird quirks (see [1]). With esphome you have a limited choice of devices (would love to see more), but you also usually end up locked into keeping a 2.4GHz WPA2 AP for your devices (and you miss out on mesh, but also the problems when it doesn't work...) 1: https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/issues/16717 https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/issues/16717
- ChainOfFools 3y agoI've got a home running that's a mixture of Wi-Fi from different (and mutually incompatible) vendors, zigbee, z-wave, and even a little bit of bluetooth. All of it is abstracted away by drivers inside of Home assistant so you deal with all of these devices using a common API, which is presented as a common UI at the finger tapping level. There's absolutely nothing stopping you from mixing and matching all sorts of different wireless protocols and media types, or even wired ones (Ethernet).