Originally Posted by
achapman
I wasn't aware a bridging module was a possibility. I deliberately refrained from suggesting a wireless bridging technology as I am aware that there are problems with Zigbee, zwave etc. Licencing and compliance are likely to be an issue and, as part 2 of the article I referenced says, interoperability between 'compatible' items under the same standard does not always work. There are obvious attractions to using a public standard (WiFi). I did wonder about Lora, which is touted as being appropriate for IoT developments, but guessed that, while it may be appropriate to connect sensors to a an IoT hub it probably would not be suitable to bridge the hub network (i.e idratek network) itself.
We have a meshed WiFi network too - I use Unifi kit, which I'm very pleased with. I suppose idratek bridging could be piggy-backed onto the WiFi mesh network. (I've also got a Sonos system, which has its own proprietory meshed wifi system, but I won't complicate things by involving this)