Did anyone see the launch of the new Shelly relays Gen4?
Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Bluetooth support in one device.
Anyone have any thoughts on this concept he wants to share? What could be the advantages, isn't the integration super complex of such a device, do you believe in this concept?
I did now! Thanks for the link! I’ve put my name down on the notify list for when they become available 
I'd say the advantages for the manufacturer are that they can make a single product that works with various systems (and presumably with their own app) without needing to make one device for each protocol. Matter over Wi-Fi, which I assume is the kind of Matter these devices support base on the other protocols listed, requires Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, so there's three of the four protcols they mentoned already (but presumably they mean it can also function with each protocol alone, perhaps BT or Wi-Fi via their app and Wi-Fi via their traditional API). Zigbee is a bit of a surprise but also not too much since can probably share a 2.4 GHz radio with at least one of these.
The only way I could see it complicating integration is in making it clear what protocol a specific driver is written for. It's quite likely Matter or Zigbee can use generic drivers or something else with minimal modifications, in which case the (direct) WI-Fi API could probably be ignored unless it offers additional features. Direct Bluetooth is unlikely to work in any case.
We saw these at CES this year, hopefully we’ll get some samples at some point.
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