[Aurornis]

> I don’t want to buy an IoT hub. Many IoT devices I want to control are powerful enough to run Wifi,

Having a lot of career experience in this area, I greatly prefer to keep my IoT devices off of my WiFi.

You don’t need a separate hub device for Zigbee or Z-Wave, just a simple USB adapter that you plug directly into your device controlling everything.

Keeping the low bandwidth IoT devices off of the main WiFi had a lot of advantages. It’s also much easier to rotate your WiFi password when you can do it all without reconnecting every light switch in your house, for example.

[hardwaresofton]

Thanks for sharing your experience here -- agreed that it's better to avoid the chatter and also rotating your WiFi passwords is indeed an issue to consider, that would be quite a pain.