From the pictures provided, we can not see the corresponding signal strength or communication quality information of the equipment. If you are referring to the comparison that the eWeLink cube currently supports fewer device types and product models than Zigbee2Mqtt or ZHA, then we admit that it does. Currently, eWeLink Cube recognizes and supports far fewer device types and product models than open source projects such as Zgbee2mqtt.
But please note: we’re talking about ihost’s zigbee RF capabilities and communication distance here, not the type and model of devices supported.
In addition, according to the users we contacted after selling ihost, 80% of the users are non-technical people who do not understand technology at all, and they do not want to learn how to install and config a opensource sysetem, so they cannot use HA smoothly - they just want to use ihost directly out of box. Our current product development direction is to serve these users well - so in order to ensure the security of equipment data, We will not open zigbee chips to any third party applications.
If you are a technical user or developer who knows HA, then you also want to install and run HA on eWeLink Cube, we have also opened the USB port for Docker, you can plug in skyconnect into USB port and install HA , they can work together.
If your purpose is more specific and you don’t want to use the eWeLink CUBE system, you just want to use the iHost hardware and run your own system, then you can still choose to flash the ihost directly - Reflash your iHost with your own Linux distribution