Tag: Zigbee

  • Selecting a ZigBee Channel

    Selecting a ZigBee Channel

    ZigBee can be a great way of handling smart home communication, without putting additional load on your existing WiFi network. Having the network separated, also means additional resilience for your smart home network, at times when your WiFi is under heavy load. Conversely, it also prevents heavy load on the ZigBee side from affecting WiFi…

  • ZHA HomeAssistant Integration

    ZHA HomeAssistant Integration

    In the past I have used a SmartLife Zigbee 3.0 Hub and the Tuya cloud in turn with the Tuya HomeAsisstant integration for controlling my smart home devices. This was too many hops for my liking, and an unnecessary reliance on a 3rd party cloud. Overall , I was not happy with latency and volume…