I see in many Domotica discussions mentioning of zigBee support (Hue)
Is there development on this subject? Will there be a Zigbee Pulgin, and if No why not?
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Zigbee support
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@arjen-otto Sooner or later someone will develop a pimatic plugin for zigbee. In my opinion there are the following problems with zigbee
- relatively expensive, you have to pay about 50 Euro per datapoint. Most users are looking for cheaper stuff or already have decided for other options, e.g., eQ3 max & HomeMatic , FS20 and such
- zigbee has not been very successful in the European markets so far.
- eventhough zigbee is a standard users may run into interop problems as
- zigbee has created its own legacy. Different versions of the standard exist which are not fully interoperable
- some vendors have not certified their products
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