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  • TheInsane42@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m messing with domoticz, but looking to home automation as well. I got an RF link from a colleague and I’m now managing light via the socket units of 3 mutual incompatible systems and it works great. I’m thinking of combining it with zigbee and see if I can do more nice things, as range is my biggest issue now.

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      1 year ago

      t an RF link from a colleague and I’m now managing light via the socket units of

      I have been waiting on Thread/Matter to be bigger and more adopted before I buy most devices. Everything I use right now is on Wi-Fi (using ESPHome). But, I am in no rush. Just having fun slowly building it out. :)

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        1 year ago

        I just had the Dutch system Klik aan klik uit (kaku), both the old and the new units. Those 2 versions are incompatible and this way I can use both. I used just the new system, but with adding the old units as well I can now make nicer scenes. (turn lights on in a natural ‘entering the room’ order and turn them off the other way around, mimicking leaving the same room.

        I’m just messing about as well and I don’t want to use wifi, that’s why I’m half looking at zugbee. (And Ikea uses that system, so I guess it’ll be available for a while)

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          1 year ago

          I was worried about drowning out my network with Wi-Fi devices but I don’t want to invest in Z-Wave or Zigbee unless Thread falls through. Here’s to hoping 🤞

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            1 year ago

            Here it’s just rf433 for now. No need for more (apart from messing around with new stuff). As far as I understand Zigbee doesn’t use wifi, but it can be in the 2.4 GHz band.