I now have everything migrated from my Nortek HUSBZB-1 combo stick to the ZBT-2 and ZWA-2 antennas. The difference is night and day, both networks are much more responsive and stable. I have roughly 20 z-wave devices and 30 or so zigbee devices, if that helps.
The migration for zigbee was literally just clicking a button. Z-Wave would have also been a single button, but unfortunately it would’ve required upgrading my HUSBZB-1 (which would require soldering and flashing). It’s not the fault of the ZWA-2, though, so I wasn’t mad about it and knew what I was getting into. I had to exclude and include all of the z-wave devices, but in the end, it was well worth it.
Seriously, if you’re having network issues with either protocol, you might just need one of these antennas and you’ll be set.
I’m in no hurry to switch out my antenna, so I don’t mind waiting for one that supports Zigbee 4.0 (and it’s long range thing).
Right now I use a Conbee 2 with around 40 devices and it works great.
I have a Conbee II also, running for about two years. I bought a ZBT 2 months ago with the view to moving to that, but then realised I was insane as I have a rock solid Conbee network with 60 devices and zero issues.
I have set up the ZBT as a Thread router instead to give me another protocol option. Waiting patiently for IKEA to improve their range of products!
I have a couple.of test products on it and all seems good.
Is there any timeline on 4.0? I figure it would also take awhile for 4.0-supported end devices to come out as well.
No problem with waiting if your network is stable. I’ve heard that the Conbee 2 is better than the Nortek combo I was using, so that makes sense.
To be clear, since I didn’t mention it in my post, my Zigbee net was mostly fine, just kind of sluggish if anything. My Z-Wave net is what needed the most help, for some reason. It was both sluggish and sometimes nodes would appear as “dead” and unavailable for awhile.
I have not heard a timeline yet, just that the spec was completed and published some months ago. :)