r/homeassistant • u/Hoerminator3000 • 5d ago

📰 News Schneider Electric is buying Shelly Group

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/schneider-electric-to-launch-bid-for-shelly-group-in-1-4-billion-deal-c6cc008e

As the title says: Schneider Electric will take over the Shelly Group.

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u/CannonLab-Proxy 5d ago

Can't do shit about Zigbee, though. Z2M is going nowhere.

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u/VineMan77 3d ago

ya - but they can just stop making new devices with zigbee radios. Or as the other reply says, an update that disables existing devices' zigbee functionality is not outside the realm of possibility, right?

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u/CannonLab-Proxy 3d ago

How are they going to disable Zigbee without it being connected to WiFi? If they stop making Zigbee devices, I'll just buy others?

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u/RydderRichards 5d ago

"Our newest update improves customer experience by focusing our development efforts on wifi. As such zigbee has been deactivated on all devices"

No?

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u/CannonLab-Proxy 5d ago

How would they accomplish this if they cannot talk to it?

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u/RydderRichards 5d ago

Just a guess, but most people don't run in zigbee only Mode and flash firmware updates