Not all Zigbees are created equal

I said in a previous post that I had been getting into Home Assistant/automation and you should expect more posts – and here is the first!

Baby Steps

My introduction to home automation was, like many others I suspect, via the IKEA TRÃ…DFRI range of blubs and plugs. In order for these to work you needed a hub which joined them all together and allowed you to control them via an app. These devices all worked over the Zigbee protocol and worked well. Then, IKEA took the decision to discontinue the TRÃ…DFRI range and replace them new devices using the … Read the rest