I’m not going to lie and tell you I’m not concerned about any platform whatsoever they all have their drawbacks and just like Iris, all if them can be pulled back away from us at any given time.
Prices on the ADT smartthings branded components are going back up. However items seem to be having fewer and fewer retailers.
I’m not necessarily concerned that they’re going to drop support for it so much as new component availability is probably going to get more difficult as things go on. The regular Smartthings v2 is still supported after all…
Having said that I have talked to both Samsung and ADT and for all it’s worth with probably isn’t much but both companies claim that they are committed to supporting the ADT smartthings for the foreseeable future.
Remember Iris just released 3rd generation in November right before announcing they were shutting down. So any cues and indicators that we may be getting from these companies are most likely false flags.
So long story short given the past behavior of all of these companies you basically have to guess at whether or not they’re gonna keep it alive or shut it down sorry I wish though the answer was better. But I have to be honest.
As far as how it integrates getting items to pair is certainly a lot easier and a lot faster than Iris was.
You can read up on my migration experience at My Iris to Smartthings migration experience
Honestly I’m a lot more complete with smartthings than I ever was with Iris. Compatibility with different items is far better.