<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 8:08:09 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Z-Wave or ZigBee<br><div><br></div><br>Yep, same idea as the Spark Fun versions of the board. However,<br>remember there's a TTL UART already on the IO header of the RasPi if you<br>haven't used it already. You can wire that right to an XBee.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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 </div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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? </div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div></div></body></html>