P.tyers
September 20, 2020, 2:20am
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ST motion zensor unavailable in Australia. Rumoured to be being phased out. Can anyone confirm or deny?
mvevitsis
September 20, 2020, 3:18am
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It’s still readily available in the US
Multipurpose and Motion Sensors have been sold out on Amazon.ca for at least a month now.
GSzabados
September 20, 2020, 8:16am
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This subject should be confirmed by SmartThings (or Samsung), but nobody will do.
A few month back someone asked a similar question but hasn’t received a full answer.
Can anyone confirm Samsung are discontinuing the SmartThings hub and sensors?
A bit of context. I’m a developer working in a small team of two. Manager and developer. Over the last six months we trialled a number of home sensor networks and ultimately settled on SmartThings. Our solution is ready for trial and we are looking at purchasing large volumes of sensors and hubs.
Samsung referred us to a supplier and we placed a large order. Waiting waiting waiting, and nothing. My manager pushes our SmartThings supplier and ultimately they tell us Samsung are dropping the hub and sensors. I ping a message to Samsung support and get no reply. My manager gets on the phone to his contacts within Samsung and they confirm the hub is dead.
Did I miss the memo? Where was this announced publ…
mvevitsis
September 20, 2020, 12:18pm
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We need a real response regarding hardware. And I guess the future of smartthings because Samsung seems to want to kill it as everything they’re doing hurts the value of smartthings as a brand.
I don’t know if they’re related but ever since Roh Tae-moon took over Samsung’s mobile division we’ve seen obnoxious cost cutting measures like ads in Samsung apps and discontinuation of services such as samsung cloud. Coincidence?
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GSzabados
September 23, 2020, 1:24pm
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That is definitely a cost cut.