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  • realitista@lemm.eetohomeassistant@lemmy.worldZigBee and Zwave?
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    5 days ago

    I run Zwave and love it. Advantages:

    • better range and less interference in 900mhz band with meshing
    • better battery life. WiFi uses up to an order of magnitude more power. Battery in Zwave devices lasts for years, with new ones being even better in this regard
    • more secure as they cannot be hacked by hacking your internet or getting on your WiFi.
    • more feature rich. Zwave devices tend to be geared towards more pro use and tend to have just about every feature you can imagine
    • The Zwave standards body is quite strict in ensuring devices adhere to the standard so it’s much harder to get “stinker” devices that don’t. This is a bigger problem with zigbee for example.
    • fully local. You can be 100% sure they aren’t sending your data off somewhere
    • Generally high quality. I’ve had quite good luck with pretty much all the Zwave devices I’ve bought. They last a long time and are reliable if your mesh is working properly (enough powered repeater nodes).









  • Maybe I got lucky with my Philips oled running Android TV, but it’s pretty quick, no ads other than recommended shows from networks, and I can choose which ones. I don’t recall it asking about data collection, but whatever the streaming services are doing it already. I like having all the streaming apps built in, then I don’t have to manage another device for this. Overall I’m surprisingly happy with it.








  • It’s more like a better Twitter

    Mastodon and Xitter are missing a lot of the quality of life features of Bluesky.

    • Good user verification
    • Add lists
    • Block lists
    • Subscribable topic feeds
    • Configurable algorithms

    These things make Bluesky very easy to get started with and more powerful even than Xitter was. It’s simply a better product if you have any requirements other than federation. Getting a good feed up and running doesn’t take more than an hour or two. It’s basically possible now on Twitter and it’s very difficult on Mastodon.

    Yes, its federation is more or less bullshit, but for most users, that feature is a distant priority when compared to the rest.