<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale@acarver.net><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, August 4, 2015 6:40:32 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Z-Wave or ZigBee<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div>There's modules from Digi that support Zigbee (the Xbee series) and they<br>also have Xbee modules that support wifi (I currently have three for<br>various HA tasks).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've seen the ZigBee and I see shields for arduino. How would my desktop interface with that system? Is there a USB transceiver that will communicate with the modules over RF?</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>