> I don’t want to buy an IoT hub. Many IoT devices I want to control are powerful enough to run Wifi,
Having a lot of career experience in this area, I greatly prefer to keep my IoT devices off of my WiFi.
You don’t need a separate hub device for Zigbee or Z-Wave, just a simple USB adapter that you plug directly into your device controlling everything.
Keeping the low bandwidth IoT devices off of the main WiFi had a lot of advantages. It’s also much easier to rotate your WiFi password when you can do it all without reconnecting every light switch in your house, for example.
Thanks for sharing your experience here -- agreed that it's better to avoid the chatter and also rotating your WiFi passwords is indeed an issue to consider, that would be quite a pain.
Having a lot of career experience in this area, I greatly prefer to keep my IoT devices off of my WiFi.
You don’t need a separate hub device for Zigbee or Z-Wave, just a simple USB adapter that you plug directly into your device controlling everything.
Keeping the low bandwidth IoT devices off of the main WiFi had a lot of advantages. It’s also much easier to rotate your WiFi password when you can do it all without reconnecting every light switch in your house, for example.