I’m not totally sure what this means in practice other than maybe the continued health of the project. Which sounds good. I’ve been pretty happy with the reliability of zwave js too.
If I were to choose infrastructure today and only looked at the technology and stability I would choose Z-wave over Zigbee, WIFI and Matter any day.
But... The pricing on Z-wave devices is a showstopper and it will eventually kill it.
Yep, it's because of that proprietary and "every device must be licensed" nature of Z-wave that I use Zigbee devices - I'll pick an open platform everyday over a closed one, even if it has limitations.
The first few devices I bought were z-wave. £40 for the radio, and £40-ish for the devices.
I would not recommend starting that way! I nearly balked at the cost of the radio.
However, it did work out, as my main heating control is z-wave, and stability in that is really important.
Not a single problem since I paired my first z-wave device.
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