Director and Zigbee Coordinator Question

[manutdsoc2020]

From early on in Control4 I thought the system best functioned(generally speaking) with Director(Controller 1- Say EA5) and Zigbee coordinator(controller 2-Say EA3).

Did this change in 3.3.0? To where Director and Zigbee Coordinator runs off one controller.

So is the only reason now to have extra controllers is for extra audio streams/on-screen navigators or additional IR emitters?

Or do I have this wrong?

Cheers manutdsoc20

[South Africa C4 user]

My Director and Zigbee still run on different controllers.

[Cyknight]

Moving ZigBee to a secondary controller CAN offload some power - but it DOES mean you put the strain to the network AND in case of network failure, you may lose control over lighting etc.

It was  never really 'best practise' to split it up IMHO (not sure it was ever C4's specific recommendation either) - but there's nothing against it as such either: depends a lot on setup (and of course in case of CA10 you CANT run coordinator on the main controller)

What IS changed in the new ZigBee versions is multiple ZAPs on ONE coordinator (or server) is not allowed and the general recommendation is to not run ZServer and ZAPCoordinator on two different controllers but to keep those processes on one and the same controller.