• marcos@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    So, if I’m reading things right, anything that runs on Z-Wave or Zigbee will necessarily run locally, because those are mesh protocols?

    Anyway, thanks a lot. Those are really simple keywords to check.

    • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Yep.

      My favorite smart outlet switch though was recently sold out and it’s an Aeotec smart switch 7.

      I’ve got it set up on Home Assistant so that whenever certain devices in my home are detected on or off via watt usage minimum changes I monitor on those smart switches, it toggles the Lutron Caseta (best smart light control there is) lights via commands for different rooms in my house.

      I also have things like waterproof outdoor gate sensors made by Zooz that are smaller than a single stick of gum where the small flat watch battery in it lasts for almost a year and it will alert me when the gate opens or closes, but only when I’m a certain distance away from the house’s geofence I’ve set up.