Home Automation (5): integrate Philips Hue

Lighting my House: at the end I have decided to adopt Philips Hue.
It has not been an easy decision. Hue is not cheap.
Another decision point has been the choice of the protocol for communication with the light’s bulbs.
I think toady, in Home and Building Automation, there are two possible and reasonable choices:

• Zigbee (ZLL)
• ZWave

ZWave is for example the protocol used by Fibaro System. It seems to me a little more open than Hue.
Zigbee Light Link (ZLL) is a protocol based on Zigbee.
As far as I have seen:

1. ZLL is becoming more and more common;
2. ZLL devices are cheaper than ZWave;
3. In addition, Hue seems to me easier to set-up and integrate.

But Philips has worked with ZLL in such a way that other devices (for example lights from Ikea) don’t integrate. The protocol permits this.

Anyway, at the end I have decided to go with Philips Hue, thinking that it was the easier and most effective choice.