I see a lot of posts about people who like their Zigbee and Z-Wave products. As I’m setting up the hardware in my home, I’m using Wi-Fi products because I already have Wi-Fi. I don’t see much difference in price. What is the actual benefit of setting up a separate network for home devices? Is there a reason that I should consider setting up one of these networks?
Home Assistant + a dongle of your choice. I won’t even get into zigbee vs zwave. Both are great just different vendor support.
And with home assistant, it’s easy to have both