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Apartments are smaller but imagine if each of those 24 networks added 6 smart devices. I have more than 30 zwave devices in my house. If each access point has 2 cellphones, a wireless printer, 2 laptops/Xbox/ps/Nintendo/smartTVs and a GHome/Alexa, that means the 2.4 & 5Ghz spectrums have 150-ish devices chattering away in range. I have friends whose condos can see two dozen access points. Wifi, BT and ZigBee also suffer heavily in urban settings where the power of wifi is as much weakness as strength. But I expect the next AWS outage/DNS poisoning/National ISP backbone failure to result in a lot of people realizing their smart gear is super fragile. And for people who only want 3 or four smart doodads, it’s the most cost effective. Wifi will last because it’s too useful and it’s a way to get montly recurring revenue by tying a device to a cloud system.
#Zigbee homeseer upgrade#
Zwave controller chips shipped with enough reserve capacity for many controllers to upgrade in place.
#Zigbee homeseer Bluetooth#
I have not seen a single Bluetooth protocol change that could be done as a firmware update. Or more accurately, I expect it to crash and burn when the protocol needs to be extended and people have to buy new bridges. I don’t expect BT mesh to really take off. It’s much cheaper to simply claim you meet a standard than to not only do it but prove it. (Though I seem to recall ZigBee 3 might add some of that). No such thing exists for the others right now. All zwave devices have security tests and compatibility tests. The downsides of zwave (testing, validation, mandatory sdk) are also in many ways its strengths. Of course I changed channel but the choices available with the RF emitted by neighbors is just not very large.
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What I dislike though is that it is on 2.4GHz and so very prone to interference: I was able to kill my philips hue communication with my Sonos (wifi) and with my microwave. Zigbee is achieving very low power consumption through using very narrow channel width and pulsing… it is not transmitting all the time unlike wifi. Unlike Zwave though, Silicon Labs requires users to have purchased a dev kit to get access to their SDK. This is what the vera uses as well for zigbee.
#Zigbee homeseer serial#
The EmberZNet Serial Protocol making controllers basically talk through a serial API… just like zwave. What is interesting is that Silicon Labs also acquired Ember which owns EZSP. The advantage of the HA stack is to have a common protocol and assigned endpoints for all vendors to use so the devices can all work on the same network, very similar to the zwave stack. It has been used in customized stacks by several big companies and as the HA1.2 stack was released, has picked up a lot of momentum. Indeed, I get the feeling that at least mid term Zigbee is here to stay. Whereas I can count a dozen people I know (friends and family) that have Hue or Ikea lighting … OK maybe only a handful or so devices each but the point is that ZigBee may become the technology of choice purely by the fact that it’s already in mainstream devices. I wonder in terms of quantity, how many ZigBee devices are sold worldwide compared to Z-Wave … sure people like us probably have 100’s of Z-Wave but I would guess that we’re the minority. I can’t believe they’d bet on something they didn’t think was going to be a winner. Amazon don’t often make mistakes, you can bet they looked at what the most sold Smart Home devices on their site were and went with a ZigBee radio to instantly become compatible with those devices (if not immediately then certainly eventually). Ikea have also recently launched their own Smart Home range which is ZigBee based and good value (and is rumoured to be built by Xiaomi).Īnd Amazon seem to be backing ZigBee in a pretty big way, it wouldn’t surprise me if they eventually put a ZigBee chip in the entire Echo range, not just the higher end models. Xiaomi Aqara are another one to watch as well - the previous and current ranges aren’t quite ZigBee compliant (but are close enough to work) but the future versions are supposedly ZigBee 3.0 compliant.
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I think Philips (Hue) would disagree And the likes of Osram, Innr and SmartThings too. Woukdn’t worry about BLE/Zigbee becoming anything.