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microtonal • today at 6:51 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

There are many great Zigbee devices. You can use them as dumb devices or as connected devices that are fully local and privacy-preserving.

These days I mostly don't buy it if it's not Zigbee (unless I make it myself with ESPHome). Just this week we bought two panel heaters (for two rooms that need a little heating because our heat pump is mostly used for heating the living room and kitchen). They work great over Zigbee and we can have some useful automations (like automatically switching off when forgotten and there is no one in the room for more than 10 minutes).