Hi,
I have the Hubitat C8 and love it. I also use Home Assistant and have the Hubitat integration. Recently, after adding a bunch of Zigbee devices, I've noticed a pretty substantial increase in network traffic on my router between HA and Hubitat. I'm assuming this is for sending and receiving Zigbee device state information.
I currently have an unmanaged switch that's not connected to my router but basically is a means to provide communication between my servers and NAS without clogging up my router and slowing down the Internet.
So, I was curious if it's possible to connect the C8 to the unmanaged switch and assign it a static IP and then use WiFi to connect to an AP and reach the Internet/other network devices.
Please let me know.
Thanks,
AJ
You cannot have both WiFi and Ethernet at the same time. Gotta choose your dance partner. 
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I'm guessing this will not be what you are after, but you could always purchase a second hub, having one for cloud integrations and one for local stuff. I have this, the "brains" HE hub is also the predominantly local one, another for lighting only and a third for cloud / intensive integrations.
You could then share devices between the hub's using Hub Mesh.
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This wouldn't really be related to Zigbee per se, just whatever device you have on Hubitat and are sharing to HASS via Maker API, assuming that is the integration you're using--but, naturally, yes, any state change has to travel over your home network to tell the other system on your home network about that state change.
Are you noticing any problems? These messages are pretty small and shouldn't be a lot of traffic. It's hard for me to imagine any way it could affect your Internet connection speed for other devices on your network if that is a concern, at least not with the throughput specs I've seen for even consumer gear.
That's a pretty good idea! Thanks @sburke781
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I use a similar model... 4 hubs in my case. Three are used for devices by area (vs protocol) -- I have 'upstairs', 'downstairs' and 'front'. I arbitrarily limit each hub to 65 devices and a fourth hub gets almost everything mirrored to it. That for Internet facing connections such as Alexa, google home and weather, for example. It's also where I have built a series of 15 interconnected Dashboards which use Hubitat's cloud from a single point. I don't actually use the dashboards much, I might "fight" with my kids at bedtime, turning off their lights, which they turn back on, and then I turn off. I certainly would use them if I awoke to a noise, looking at motion sensors. Overall, I've spent 10x time building dashboards than using them.
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