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hart_russelltoday at 5:15 PM3 repliesview on HN

Any reason why this device wouldn't have Z-Wave? Is the wireless protocol significantly different than Thread and Zigbee?


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wimltoday at 5:37 PM

As I understand it, Z-Wave is substantially more closed/proprietary. Both Thread and Zigbee are protocols that run on top of 802.15.4, which Espressif already has in other products.

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Aurornistoday at 5:18 PM

This device only has a 2.4GHz radio. Z-Wave is sub-1GHz.

mherkendertoday at 5:21 PM

I don't know for sure but Bluetooth, WiFi and Zigbee are on the same frequency band. Z-Wave is not.

(at least in the US, not sure about other countries)