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Edited March 18, 2024
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The Smartest House [thesmartesthouse.com] is having their spring sale through 3/26. Many deals on ZWave devices, mostly 800 series LR chips. My particular recommendations are the ZEN34 and ZEN37 remotes ($18 and $24 respectively) which are incredibly handy devices. Also lots of wired switches, relays, and controllers. Free shipping at $99.
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I'll let you in on a little secret, companies that offer free shipping just build it into the price of the product.
I've got zigbee, zwave, wifi and matter devices. No issues with any of them.
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It's much better. I know what you are talking about. I hated the earlier generation dimmer tactile feedback.
Now the construction and tactile feedback is as good, if not better, than the JASCO (GE) switches. You wouldn't be able to tell them apart if not for labelling. It feels like a solid device, not a cheap electronics toy. The connectors feel solid.
For now, I've automated a few things and put some virtual buttons on my phone.
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Not trying to get on a soap box but I use Home Assistant and have a 100+ blend of Zwave and Zigbee products. I'll always push for Zwave if it's not a ridiculous price. The only reason to get Zigbee is usually for a cheaper price - but you'll most likely get a worse product. Zigbee crowds the already overcrowded 2.4ghz spectrum and Z-wave is at a lower, and better penetrating 908 mhz and they provide a superior mesh network with most plug in devices acting as repeaters. Zigbee doesn't seem to heal/rebuild as efficiently. It's not uncommon for me to see several zigbee sensors go offline for extended periods of times - or until there is a wake up event like manually triggering a water sensor. My Zwave devices are ROCK solid and easily pingable.
So slight soapbox, but while I'm at it, anyone who is still using SmartThings should know better and dump that crap ecosystem ASAP.
Whether you like it or not, Zigbee is here to stay. In fact, many Amazon Echos now has Zigbee chip built-in.
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Whether you like it or not, Zigbee is here to stay. In fact, many Amazon Echos now has Zigbee chip built-in.
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this works well.
Also is there a solution for a whole house dashboard that I can put somewhere near entrance so I can turn on off from there and see statuses of garage / bulbs/locks etc?
Also is there a solution for a whole house dashboard that I can put somewhere near entrance so I can turn on off from there and see statuses of garage / bulbs/locks etc?
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Awesome I need to chk these out. How do u use these tablets. Ie is it mounted on a wall and charger hidden etc? I need a neat solution that doesn't show wires