I'm starting to use matter, and I still have a couple Z-wave devices, but zigbee is a great mesh network that gets stronger as you add more powered (not battery) devices that act as a router. Eventually matter/thread will be a likely "winner" in smart home stuff, but there are still issues between apple and everyone else that cause some issues. Until then, zigbee is my way to go as I can run everything I have without reaching out to some cloud. All of it is local on my Home Assistant docker. Bow, for a couple you probably haven't heard about in a long while - I started with X-10 and Insteon. All of that is long gone.
Many of them put out blue light that screws up your system...
You are so right about the "good ones" and output.
Zigbee... Haven't heard that name in like 10 years when I "over did it" and bought a ton of that stuff for automation...
I'm starting to use matter, and I still have a couple Z-wave devices, but zigbee is a great mesh network that gets stronger as you add more powered (not battery) devices that act as a router. Eventually matter/thread will be a likely "winner" in smart home stuff, but there are still issues between apple and everyone else that cause some issues. Until then, zigbee is my way to go as I can run everything I have without reaching out to some cloud. All of it is local on my Home Assistant docker. Bow, for a couple you probably haven't heard about in a long while - I started with X-10 and Insteon. All of that is long gone.
Yeah... X10 goes back to the 80s... Good old radio shack...I'd like my free red batt-tree please... 😁