[ale] Z-Wave or ZigBee

[Chris Fowler]

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> From: "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 8:08:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Z-Wave or ZigBee

> Yep, same idea as the Spark Fun versions of the board. However,
> remember there's a TTL UART already on the IO header of the RasPi if you
> haven't used it already. You can wire that right to an XBee.

I have plenty of Pis and BeagleBone Blacks. Okay, ZigBee is simply architecture for IoT that can do automation. I had known about IoT, but I 
am confusing ZigBee for only being for automation. Automation is just a sample application of IoT. I found some outlet plugs on eBay that support it. 

I like the idea of the ethernet gateway. The ZB devices can simply be on their own subnet. Are there any support for this gateway architecture in Linux, or am I restricted to a device like what Digi has created? 

Chris 
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