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minus-squareHiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·21 hours agoYou didn’t look very hard. Cheap zigbee stuff exists everywhere. And zigbee is an open standard, so if it works, it will work until the equipment breaks.
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·16 hours agoYes, but a lot of ZigBee stuff ends up in environments that use a cloud-connected “smart” hub.
minus-squareHiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 hours agoAnd that’s the fault of whoever uses those hubs. You can use practically any zigbee hub you wish. Zigbee is zigbee.
You didn’t look very hard.
Cheap zigbee stuff exists everywhere. And zigbee is an open standard, so if it works, it will work until the equipment breaks.
Yes, but a lot of ZigBee stuff ends up in environments that use a cloud-connected “smart” hub.
And that’s the fault of whoever uses those hubs. You can use practically any zigbee hub you wish. Zigbee is zigbee.