alex_smith: I've been working with this for several years and it's been pretty solid. The integrations work well once you configure properly.

21 hours ago · profile

YMMV, but from my experience — Thread is overkill for this use case.

See also

• Zigbee vs Matter: which should I choose?
• Why is my device unresponsive after restart?
• Mosquitto: where do you host your MQTT broker?