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You should now have all the ingredients to build your custom IoT networks and ditch those bridges for good! You should now have all the ingredients to build your custom IoT networks and ditch those bridges for good!
### April 2021 note
The native Z-Wave integration provided by Platypush will slowly get phased out in favour of the new `zwave.mqtt`
integration (see [issue #186](https://git.platypush.tech/platypush/platypush/-/issues/186)).
The reason is that the library used by the native Z-Wave integration (`python-openzwave`) is currently
[unmaintained](https://github.com/OpenZWave/python-openzwave/issues/198) and its last commit was around the
beginning of 2019. Many bugs keep stashing up on the library because of progress made on the OpenZWave framework
while the library doesn't get updated, and some Platypush methods may be broken as of now.
Instead, it is now advised to set up a [`zwavejs2mqtt`](https://github.com/zwave-js/zwavejs2mqtt) gateway to
that uses an MQTT broker to dispatch events and messages (follow the installation instructions
[here](https://zwave-js.github.io/zwavejs2mqtt/#/getting-started/quick-start)).
After installing the gateway, you can configure the `zwave.mqtt`
[plugin](https://docs.platypush.tech/platypush/plugins/zwave.mqtt.html) and
[backend](https://docs.platypush.tech/platypush/backend/zwave.mqtt.html) on Platypush side to enable the integration.
The format of the requests and responses is the same and the UI is also cross-compatible, although zwavejs2mqtt
doesn't implement some advanced features provided by OpenZWave (such as low-level controller commands or e.g. rename
values and scenes).