Hi everyone, I just switched from Homewizard to Homey (and I like it!!) I don’t have any Z-wave or Zigbee devices yet. Can someone give me a crash course? what’s the difference? What are pro and con’s for both protocols? what’s the best?

The main difference between zwave and zigbee is that the first is a standard that is controlled by a consortium, the zwave consortium. Therefore it is, mostly, guarenteed that zwave devices can communicatie with eachother because the hardware that makes it possible is highly standardized. Zigbee on …

Lots of big companies make good use of zigbee, like Philips, Ikea, Xiaomi, Honeywell. And there are good zwave brands as well. With homey don’t have to choose now is it. I see you ask about zigbee and zwave, but don’t rule out good old wifi! There are some people who favor using only wifi enable…

I don’t have any experience with zigbee. I have 8 zwave device and I am a bit disappointed. Controlling devices is reliable about 99% of the time so not too bad there, but I find homey only picks up notifications about 60% of the time (these are estimates and not measured). That, for me, makes auto…

[image] Adrian_Rockall: will hop over homey before reaching homey. Can u explain this?

Homey is in the centre of my house. Yet the devices in the kitchen at the bcak of my house will route through the blind in my cloakroom at the front of the house, which then routes to homey. If I stand by homey and the kitchen door is open, I can see the devices in the kitchen. There are three wall…

well that is the thing with a mesh network. You never know how it will play out. Here in my house I have something similar. In the hallway I have 3 door sensors and a domitech led bulb. This bulb should, to my understanding, act as the first hub those door sensors should connect to. But for some str…

If mine worked reliably I wouldn’t care either :wink: But as I say I am bewildered by it :grin: I even bought a zwave socket to see if that would improve reliability by providing better routing. I have tried it in various locations for several days at a time and requested healing on devices but so…

[image] Adrian_Rockall: If mine worked reliably I wouldn’t care either Maybe go for the range extension by using a better antenna. Homey Pro Antenna modification

So, why not both? Why choose when u can have it all? If the question was KaKu or Zwave/Zigbee then i have an opinion yes. But Zwave or Zigbee? I have lots of both of them and happy with both.

Z-wave or Zigbee

Devices

Jamie February 18, 2019, 7:31am 17

Echo Plus can connect directly to zigbee devices, highly advertised - you get a free Philips Globe when you buy an echo plus. The Echo Plus Gen 2 was released in the second half of 2018 and also includes a temp sensor in it.

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