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But that is the thing. The special 802.15.4 is what made zigbee attractive to people like me. How have their own custom zigbee hub and uses a variety of devices from several manufacturers that have all of them report to the zigbee hub that I control

Moving it to just standard wifi, Ethernet, etc will allow device manufacturers to lock out people like me

Others in the community seem excited for it however anytime you have Amazon, Google, and Apple all working together I can never see how that results in good things for users as each are open hostile to user control in various ways.



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