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?
Zigbee sucks and is a source of constant problems for me, but you can’t have a thumb sized door sensor using wifi, it uses too much energy.
What kind of problems? So many others present it as virtually worry free.