If you want to make your lights a bit smarter without changing all your bulbs, a smart dimmer switch like the Enbrighten Zigbee model is a simple answer. It fits in a normal wall box and looks like a ...

Leviton’s new in-wall dimmer is Zigbee 3.0 certified, but judging from the aesthetics you wouldn’t know it was new, or even a smart device at all. The full-size paddle design aesthetic is decidedly ...

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No doubt about it: Jasco’s Enbrighten dimmer makes switch wiring easier. Reverse the line and load wires and the switch won’t work. A voltage tester will tell you which wire is which, but since most ...

Zigbee isn't dead yet.

If you would like to start your journey by setting up your own home automation system, Zigbee, offers a robust wireless protocol, and has been transforming the way we control and automate our homes.

A San Diego start-up apparently is the first company with commercially available tools for connecting everything from smoke detectors to heart monitors over low-power wireless nets based on the IEEE ...

ZigBee nodes can only send data requests to other nodes on the same network. A single ZigBee network is called a Personal Area Network (PAN). This section describes PAN IDs, extended PAN IDs, and ...