Read the title. I am wondering if it's better to use MQTT than the zwave integration. I have noticed that the zwave integration drops every once in a while. Is there any benefit to using one over the other?
#Zigbee2Mqtt and ZwaveJSUI - Should i use MQTT? Or the Zwave integration?
potent kayak
Not a question of zigbee or zwave - more a question of "Should i use MQTT or not?"
Zigbee2MQTT forces you to use MQTT. But ZwaveJSUI doesn't. It's optional
sly river
You shouldn't use MQTT for ZwaveJSUI because it communicates natively over websockets and that's the preferred way. Zigbee2MQTT only communicates over MQTT, so you have to use it for that
MQTT is an additional service and "hop" for communications, so if you can go straight to HA, that's generally better. In practice, it doesn't really matter for functionality or perfomrnace
woeful relic
MQTT is an additional service and "hop" for communications, so if you can go str...
I'd argue that the discovery of the Z-Wave integration is a bit better than via MQTT