My first impressions are disappointing. You describe the add‑on as “native”, but in practice it’s just an MQTT bridge that pulls devices from the cloud and exposes them to Home Assistant via MQTT Discovery. It works reliably and follows HA standards, but it’s not a full integration on the level of ZHA, Z2M, ESPHome, or Shelly — everything still goes through an intermediate layer and depends on the cloud.
More importantly, the add‑on simply isn’t ready. It’s more of a “work in progress”, at best a beta version. Many devices aren’t supported (e.g., TRVZB). @MichaelLearnsToCode The MQTT payload is filtered significantly better than in the very similar mechanism known from the latest iterations of the MQTT→HA “integration” used by the NSPanel Pro, but the usefulness is just as limited and doesn’t bring anything particularly exciting.
Setting aside the confusion caused by the recent TRVZB firmware update, it’s still far from the practicality of the SonoffLAN add‑on from HACS. For now, I’ll keep an eye on it, but I definitely won’t be using it as a “production‑ready” solution, because it simply isn’t one.