Zigbee what should I look fo

[dreamy flint]

Hey I'm new to the zigbee stuff I already bought a zigbee to mqtt stick and I'm looking for use cases.
Well I have found some and one was a remote PC switch pcie.
Well it's tuya zigbee and it says its not compatible with zigbee 2 mqtt but I have no clue if that's true or not.
I would like to just turn the PC on and off with it.

In addition for that are there any tips before I start through with zigbee and are there any recommendations on what zigbee devices to get?

[sick sleet]

link, the picture show many? depends what you want to do... turning on and off a pc, probably not trivial you can easity get a zigbee socket and force it on/off from that

[dreamy flint]

It's just this one
Only one I want to use and its for booting and shutting off the PC

Not cutting the power

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EunzitA

Small side info I do not want to use a 3rd party app like tuya to control this

[sick sleet]

the thing you kinked is a switch... you will need a coordinator to run a mesh network and since you are in here, a homeassistant

i have no idea about that specific switch but you are right not wanting random software controlling something that has access to your pc.

if i would like to do that probably I will be a little bit more diy, get a "normal" zigbee relay and wire it to the power button of the pc

although this is just a thought I have I did not do it in practice since I do not own any computers other than laptops

[dreamy flint]

Well I do have home assistant up and running
A zignee2mqtt stick is on the way too that's not the problem but idk what the device need to run to connect to zigbee2mqtt

[sick sleet]

security aside that pcie board seems to do more or less the same

one thing in some of the listing they say 433... i hope is not 433 MHz

[dreamy flint]

Can I ask why?

[sick sleet]

there is some discussion in here https://ismarthomesecurity.com/blogs/blog/z-wave-vs-zigbee-vs-433mhz

problem is i have no idea if your zigbee coordinator likes 433 freqs... probably no

[dreamy flint]

Well I got this one
https://a.aliexpress.com/_EHBeMIY

Idk

But in short I can connect the switch to zigbee with a mqtt switch in theory or not?

[sick sleet]

i hope you got the 07 and not the 07p7 but for dew devices shall make no difference

I do not know if the 433 will connect to your coordinator they look like different freqs... but is just speculation

[dreamy flint]

I did got the 07 cause the 07p7 have older chip

[dreamy flint]

Hmm okay