I see a lot of posts about people who like their Zigbee and Z-Wave products. As I’m setting up the hardware in my home, I’m using Wi-Fi products because I already have Wi-Fi. I don’t see much difference in price. What is the actual benefit of setting up a separate network for home devices? Is there a reason that I should consider setting up one of these networks?
I would say unless they’re cloud based it’s not really a priority with sometime like home assistant since it allows for devices of different platforms and technologies to work together.
It’s hard to know with technologies, but I don’t think ZigBee is a big risk and since it’s local even if they stop producing them that doesn’t break your existing devices. I mean, Wi-Fi will undoubtedly still exist, but that doesn’t mean the platforms and protocols that Wi-Fi devices use will and devices that connect to the internet can be disabled by updates.