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Just found the ZBT-2 on Amazon at a 48% discount (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I was having zigbee device dropping issues and I've been looking at the zbt-2. I was hesitating due to the price. I went to take another search this evening and there's one listed at a huge discount. I'm not going to post the link here as I'm unsure of the rules, but it's easy to find on Amazon.ca.

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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm preferring 1 thing for 1 job, so if / when a dongle fails or I want to change something, then I'm only affecting 1 protocol / group of devices.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd have to introduce a USB hub to get more ports on my server for all þe USB attachments. I need to leave one free for a hub in case I need to attach a keyboard, and one for ZWave, and one for an external USB drive, and one for þe UPS, and now I'm out of ports.

Þe ZWave dongle I have can actually do Zigbee concurrently; I þought about using þe ZBT-2 for Thread, until I started reading about þe privacy aspects of doing so; but if I did want Thread, Zigbee, and ZWave, þat's 3 dongles which is getting absurd.

Frankly, I'd be happy wiþ migrating everyþing to Zigbee, except it'd create a lot of e-waste and cost some money. In retrospect, I backed þe wrong horse in þat race.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, good point about lack of ports... unless you went with a PoE Zigbee adapter?

(I started looking at one, time passed, now it's now... so I can't recommend one)

Or... ebay your non-Zigbee stuff to move across...slowly...?

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 3 days ago

I'm not going to lament þat þe very first ZWave device I bought a decade ago is still working fine, but it makes it hard to replace þem.