Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project Now Open and Available
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#2The title is confusing and sounds like just PR. I thought they mean "Z-Wave project is Open Source now" but looks like source code is still in private github repository and you need to be a "member" to get access.
What "Source Code Project" supposed to even mean? Any source code is part of some project(s).
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#3With all tech giants putting their weight behind a competing (open) standard, z-wave is probably feeling the pressure to adapt or become irrelevant.
Re: Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project Now Open and Available
#4The title is confusing and sounds like just PR. I thought they mean "Z-Wave project is Open Source now" but looks like source code is still in private github repository and you need to be a "member" to get access. What "Source Code Project" supposed to even mean? Any source code is part of some project(s).
The article links to this:
> The goal of the source code project is to provide a rich development environment containing relevant source code and sample applications under BSD 3 License. The Z-Wave source code project will enable members to contribute code to the project under the supervision of the new OS Work Group (OSWG).
Which doesn't clarify at all. Is OS "open source" or "operating system", or something?
Is the relevant source code also BSD licensed? What does it include?
My guess is that this is a teaser article for an event that happened last month, and the repo is open now (or they forgot to open it).
Anyway, I came here to figure out what Z-Wave is, and why it is better than other smart home networks. Any ideas?
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#5Now that Matter and Thread are finally starting to roll out, is there really any good reason for new products to still use Z-Wave? Or am I just crazy to see this as Z-Wave trying to continue a format war (first started with Zigbee) that they're almost certainly going to lose?
Re: Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project Now Open and Available
#6The title is confusing and sounds like just PR. I thought they mean "Z-Wave project is Open Source now" but looks like source code is still in private github repository and you need to be a "member" to get access. What "Source Code Project" supposed to even mean? Any source code is part of some project(s).
The title is truncated. The full title is:
"Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project is Complete, Now Open and Widely Available to Members"
The three last words are the key.
I was getting excited as well, but looks like Z-Wave is still going to a closed group thing.
Re: Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project Now Open and Available
#7The title is confusing and sounds like just PR. I thought they mean "Z-Wave project is Open Source now" but looks like source code is still in private github repository and you need to be a "member" to get access. What "Source Code Project" supposed to even mean? Any source code is part of some project(s).
The article links to this: > The goal of the source code project is to provide a rich development environment containing relevant source code and sample applications under BSD 3 License. The Z-Wave source code project will enable members to contribute code to the project under the supervision of the new OS Work Group (OSWG). Which doesn't clarify at all. Is OS "open source" or "operating system", or something? Is the…
z-wave is kind of competing with zigbee for low power mid-range wireless standard for smart home or smart building since like 20 years ago? then we have low power bluetooth and low-power wifi joined the party.
z-wave was proprietary which did not help its deployments, but still I recall it was the most deployed low power wireless devices for IoT. I worked on zigbee and never liked it. I wish z-wave was more open back in time.
Did not track what's going on these days for low power mid-range wireless, general feeling is that zigbee did not take off, zwave is used as before(you license it and put it to your sensors), and more and more are using low-power wifi and even bluetooth instead.
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#8Now that Matter and Thread are finally starting to roll out, is there really any good reason for new products to still use Z-Wave? Or am I just crazy to see this as Z-Wave trying to continue a format war (first started with Zigbee) that they're almost certainly going to lose?
Do Matter and Thread use wifi or are they a different radio freq?
Re: Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project Now Open and Available
#9Now that Matter and Thread are finally starting to roll out, is there really any good reason for new products to still use Z-Wave? Or am I just crazy to see this as Z-Wave trying to continue a format war (first started with Zigbee) that they're almost certainly going to lose?
Do Matter and Thread use wifi or are they a different radio freq?
Thread is a mesh IPv6 based network that operates over the 2.4 GHz ISM band but is not WiFi. Matter is a communication protocol built on top of Thread, WiFi, and BLE (and potentially others in the future).
Re: Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project Now Open and Available
#10Now that Matter and Thread are finally starting to roll out, is there really any good reason for new products to still use Z-Wave? Or am I just crazy to see this as Z-Wave trying to continue a format war (first started with Zigbee) that they're almost certainly going to lose?
Do Matter and Thread use wifi or are they a different radio freq?
Thread and ZigBee operate in the 2.4 Ghz and also 833/915 Mhz although in practice I've never seen any devices that explicitly claim to be using the sub Ghz bands. It's not WiFi, it's IEEE 802.15.4. Matter supports devices connected through WiFi, Thread and Ethernet with BT provisioning.