| ▲ | SEJeff 4 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes, zwave is in the much less congested 900mhz range. It is a fair bit more reliable as it doesn’t compete with: - WiFi - Bluetooth - microwave ovens Additionally, it’s a bit more strict with certification so you can easily use multiple vendors for zwave whereas with zigbee it’s often a terrible experience since vendors implement things differently in ways that are not as interoperable. In fact, for a device to be certified by the zwave alliance, it must pass strict conformance testing to ensure backwards compatibility and interoperability. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | torginus an hour ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is both good and bad, and no surprise its an American standard. Lower frequencies have higher range, which is good if you live in a house (because range), and bad if you live in an apartment (because interference and crowded channels). So it will compete with itself, and everything on the ISM band (which you have no control over). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | parineum 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All it costs is significantly more money and less options. If you limit your pool of zigbee devices to just more reputable companies, you'll end up with around the same amount of options as zwave and they'll be reliable but significantly cheaper. You also have the option to find some super cheap stuff that works just fine. That usually requires some research but not much. You can also build ESPHome devices for zigbee but that's pretty niche, to say the least. Having previously been all zwave then moved and tried to go matter but ended up with zigbee, I wish I never listened to people saying what you are. As far as I'm concerned, zwave doesn't know it's dead yet and Matter isn't going to fulfill it's promises because the corporate interests that wouldn't give you local control with zigbee aren't suddenly going to change their minds because it says matter now. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | petre 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On Europe the 860MHz band is subject to more restrictive transmission duty cycles, LBT or FHSS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-range_device#SRD860 In the US you also have the FCC reshaping the 900 MHz for industrial broadband and NextNav. So there will be more competition. https://www.nemko.com/blog/fcc-reshapes-the-900-mhz-band-for... https://www.landisgyr.com/br/pt/home/knowledge/blog/Navigati... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||