Hardware recommendation

I’m likely going to leave my EEDOMUS+ box to switch to GLADYS, but I currently have more than 30 Z‑Wave devices, a few EnOcean (I understand those have to be forgotten), some Zigbee and quite a few 433 MHz devices (temperature sensors and motion detectors). My question: are there any Z‑Wave, Zigbee and RFXLAN USB

Hi @Titus,

Great if you join us on Gladys!

For Zigbee, we use Zigbee2mqtt so any compatible dongle will do, but I generally recommend the Sonoff: SONOFF ZigBee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus, TI CC2652P Coordinator, Universelle USB ZigBee Hub, Passerelle ZigBee pour Home Assistant : Amazon.fr: Informatique

For Z-Wave, we go through ZwaveJS-UI, any compatible dongle works (check on their site). That said, I won’t hide from you that we have very few Z-Wave users on Gladys — it’s a tech that, in my opinion, has no future :sweat_smile:

Gladys is not compatible with RFXLAN. You can go through intermediate tools to integrate them into gladys (Node-RED for example)

Don’t hesitate if you have any questions :smiling_face:

Hi @Titus,

For Z-Wave (I have an old Z-Wave.Me UZB), it works well with Gladys and ZwaveJS. It may be missing some features but I think they can be integrated quite easily. I had already made a few requests when I switched from Jeedom to Gladys and now they’re in Gladys.

For RFXLAN, Node-RED is the solution that works very well with Gladys as @pierre-gilles indicates: node-red-contrib-rfxcom.
If your eedomus supports MQTT, you can also publish your sensors’ info from eedomus to MQTT and pick that up on Gladys. I do that between Jeedom and Gladys for some devices, with Gladys managing my home automation.

For EnOcean, I saw that it can also be handled via Node-RED: node-red-contrib-enocean, and likewise with the MQTT solution.

You’ll need to remember to back up your Node-RED flows so you don’t lose everything (speaking from experience unfortunately :slightly_frowning_face:).

For Zigbee, you can either use a USB dongle plugged into your Gladys PC, or get a model from SMLIGHT that goes over the network and is powered by PoE (and can also be connected by USB). We have some threads on the forum notably the SLZB-MR1 which also lets you have a Thread network for later and Matter over Thread devices.

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