Z-Wave is one of the main smart home wireless communication protocols that power over 3,300 different products
I think it should be “that powers over 3,300 different products” because “power(s)” is talking about Z-wave, not the protocols mentioned in the prepositional phrase “of the main smart home wireless communication protocols”. It’s been a while since I’ve taken an English class, though, and I’m assuming the 3,300 figure is referring only to Z-wave.
Today, Z-Wave is owned by Silicon Labs and over the years, Z-Wave has developed into much more than a lighting control system and the technology can be found in many smart home devices such as thermostats, light switches, wall plugs, outlets, sensors, and more.
This feels like a bit of a run-on. Perhaps:
“Today, Z-Wave is owned by Silicon Labs and over the years, Z-Wave has developed into much more than a lighting control system. The technology can be found in many smart home devices such as thermostats, light switches, wall plugs, outlets, sensors, and more.”
When you add a device, the terminology is called an, “inclusion” as you’re including the device to the network via the hub.
The comma isn’t required before “inclusion” as the quotation marks aren’t being used for an actual quotation, but because you’re talking about the word “inclusion” in a meta way.
For a more in-depth look at how Z-Wave works…
Quite frankly, I can’t wait for this forthcoming article to arrive so I don’t need to buy a book to learn it. I consider myself a pretty technical person, and when I first got into Z-wave stuff (December 2020) I found myself lost in a lot of this terminology because I couldn’t find anything that laid it out in a straight-forward manner. Over the months I’ve gotten much more comfortable with it as I’ve read forums (such as this one) and dug into openzwave and zwavejs source code, but I don’t expect many people to do that. At least, that may be a barrier to entry for people who aren’t as technical as I am. Honestly, I’m still pretty foggy on Z-wave-native scenes. All of my “scenes” are managed by Home Assistant and I feel like there’s some native concept of scenes that Z-wave supports that I’m completely missing. Another thing I would have liked spelled out when I first got started was the relationship between the chip series and the protocol versions, and the benefits/features that came with those technology generations. Again, it’s something I picked up along the way, but only after a fair amount of digging because I was motivated to learn about it. A less motivated person might just throw their hands up and move on to something else.
its radio signals operate outside of the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands so it won’t interfere with your Wi-Fi signals
Also in 2.4 GHz is Bluetooth and Zigbee, of course. And I imagine that a lot of people have more Zigbee around them than they realize, even though it’s in a proprietary manner they can’t control. For example, my Comcast cable box remote runs on Zigbee, as does my smart electric meter. So much stuff is on 2.4 GHz, it’s insane.