From another Thread on hubs being out of stock…
Only if third party manufacturers are going to design and build it, apparently. ![]()
This seems to fall in line with what was hinted a few months ago in that podcast…Samsung is getting out of the smart home hardware business and will focus on the cloud platform/API. Looks like it will be up to third parties to build the hardware, including the hubs for users who want Z-wave and Zigbee devices.
I have to believe a formal announcement will be forthcoming.
Hmmm… This scares me more than anything else Samsung has done lately. And they have done a lot of stuff, all not so good in the short term for supposed long term gain no one will really know works until it happens. If they are no longer responsible for the hub, then will they really care if in future iterations of the SmartThings platform, API, whatever that they will be quick to help 3rd parties update the firmware when stuff breaks or just needs updating?
I’m not a software guy, just a big tinkerer with this stuff that cant live without WebCore. I just went from 30% thinking about Hubitat to about 90% in the course of the last 10 minutes. It saddens me to be fair but hey, life is always full of changes I guess. ![]()
One thing I would bet my house on is that in the future that new Samsung TV you buy will be able to talk to that new Samsung refrigerator on WiFi via the Smarthings App. But will your Z-wave devices work via a (now, apparently) soon to be 3rd party Hub?