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Re:The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity by cyberax on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @08:08PM (#37667758)
You can get ZigBee with any number of adapters (I'm using HUZBZB-1), and Matter right now is not worth it anyway.

I bought a SkyConnect adapter to support HAOS, but it's probably going to be unused for at least another year.

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Re:The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity by jyrkesh on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:45PM (#37668718)
+1 for the HUZBZB-1. I waxed more poetically about my setup already[1], but I've had that little guy for over 4 years, it was plug-and-play on day 1, and I've never had a single issue with a Zigbee or Z-Wave device. (Wi-Fi? don't even get me started...)

And yeah, it'll be another year or two before Matter/Threads really starts picking up steam. I'll just pick up a new dongle when there's 10 of 'em in that same timeframe.

(Disclaimer: my house is 800 sqft and I don't share any walls with neighbors. Zigbee is SUPPOSED to be mesh and Just Work assuming you have enough devices, but I can't speak from experience on that front.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37667266

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