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Z-Wave Long Range and its mile-long capabilities will arrive next year - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] Starfighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Mostly its really fucking expensive. Usual applications are central control of heating and window blinds in large office buildings.

Part of what drives the price is that ideally it's all hard wired.

[–] bangsnooter@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm still confused as to what the product is, that just sounds like commercial Home Assistant. What is hardwired? Some knx device similar to a Shelly?

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's a buildings automation standard. The products that implement it are usually expensive

[–] bangsnooter@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks, that sounds like a correct answer.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe commercial MQTT? From the wiki it seems like mostly an intermediary protocol to get disparate things working on the same system. Their site is pure marketing garbage for explaining anything about it though.