Why SONOFF products seems be stuck in beta version?

Ideas & Suggestion
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I’m an early supporter of SONOFF products, I’ve changed and bought new products from year.

Now I’ve 30/40 sonoff products installed, TVRs, iHost, TX Ultimate and so on. But now I’m becoming upset because all of those seems stuck in a beta version state. A lot of feature are missing making the ecosystem unstable or, sometimes, unuseful.

Why not finalizing products before presenting new ones?

Some examples:

  • iHost Matter bridge pretty unusable with HomeKit. It connects for a couple of hours than every device became offline.
  • TX Ultimate support from iHost is partial: no ambient light or swipe support in scenes
  • Snzb-02D is not supported by eWelink smart home iHost add-on (fixed pairing to Zigbee Bridge Pro instead of iHost)
  • TVRs temp sensors are not accepted as temp feed by NSPanel or NSPanel PRO
  • Snzb-02D is not supported as temp feed in NSPanel PRO neither. What device does it support?! Ok, NSPanel PRO seems to only support devices connected to ewelink and not in a local environment (connected to iHost).
  • NSPanel PRO 120 seems not to be supported natively from ewelink app: it shows up as a “stretched up” version of the NSPanel PRO 86. Bigger size is not really used as extra space making it unuseful…
  • NSPanel PRO 120 has a pretty beautiful default theme but changing the Home Screen with a custom layout make every other page uglier than the default theme. So, cool feature, but is better to stay with the default theme… this is really incomprehensible.

I think I can go forward for hours. So the main question is, why?

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Matter itself still needs more work to improve, not just from eWeLink/SONOFF but also from Alliance behind Matter and other platforms like Apple.

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And it was supposed to be beautiful and better for everyone. Meanwhile, Zigbee, despite its fragmentation, is still a better solution.

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Indeed.

But it would depend on personal needs. I think Matter still stands out for its local cross-platform experience. For large-scale usage with a budget, Zigbee’s a solid option.

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I bought a google hub for matter, the sonoff bridge U for matter, and home assistant sees matter. I still have to have my sonoff bridge pro for some zigbee things that will not pair with the ultra?! What does it do? What was it for? Like working a crossword puzzle. Keeps you busy, but why am I doing this? And yes, things still drop off occasionally. I’m ok with it though. Waiting on that firmware upgrade that makes it all worth while. waiting.

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What devices do you have that only pair with Pro?

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Hi Ward. On the Pro, I still have 3 ewelink /sonoff? lights that won’t connect to the Ultra. 2 zigbee switches for my goldfish pond and a zigbee water valve. These are a little older and the newer stuff, ligjhts, water valve does connect to ultra!, but no updated home assistant “drivers” in the sonoff integration. They’re working on it.

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I think SONOFF only has Wi-Fi lights, which won’t need a Zigbee gateway