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?
Oh? I run 40 Matter devices and they’ve been pretty great. The downside is that they don’t mesh or act as repeaters as Zigbee does. Simple setup via HA as well.