Hi everyone,
I am trying to plan the automation of my house and I am struggling to choose the way to go. My goal is (in this order):
- control the lights of my house (with switches). I will then have smart bulbs to control brightness but they won’t be always on as I’ll keep the wall switches.
- control the motorized shutters.
- control the thermostats based on room temperature.
The initial idea was to use Zigbee and not wifi to create a nice mesh with low consumption, but I am a little stuck. I explain myself.
The plan was to use switches as repeaters (I don’t want external repeaters such as plugs,…) but I then discovered that switches without neutral such as the sonoff zbmini L2 are end nodes. I then thought of using the sonoff zbmini, but then discovered that I probably don’t have access to both N and L since connections are like:
Then I thought of using the dual for the shutters as repeaters, but then discovered that sonoff dual are only wifi… I then found the aquara (anyone has experience with them? Are they good repeaters and any good for shutters control?):
At this point I am asking myself if I should re-consider using wifi or keep searching for a good Zigbee solution.
Any advice? Am I missing something?
Thank you and have a great day!
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