submitted 7 months ago by Minsk_trust@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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So building new home. Its a small aframe up on the side of a mtn. Don’t need anything fancy like multi zone. Only need on/off with dimming. Buying switches for the main lights and am thinking its one of the following two.

Will be running a home assistant yellow and with a zwave dongle i believe. Any input? People like these switches? Would i be better off with zigbee or matter?

Im a noob so thanks for the help!

https://inovelli.com/collections/inovelli-smart-light-switches/products/z-wave-800-red-series-smart-2-1-on-off-dimmer-switch?variant=42097683333285

https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/collections/zooz/products/zooz-700-series-z-wave-plus-dimmer-zen72

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[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Zwave is a closed standard and all your components will be slightly more expensive and harder to buy.

Zigbee is much more open, plus maybe threads will become a big thing one day.

I only use zwave for legacy reasons, I've been using it since before zigbee was a thing and I still have a handful of devices on it.

IKEA is a good source of cheap zigbee components to play with.

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