Claude Flammang

@ExcessShiv
In europe there is a big difference between the manufacturers waranty that is up to the manufacturer to offer or not to offer as he likes and the legal waranty that is an obligation for the seller that he cannot escape.
So in europe the customer always holds the reseller responsible and not the manufacturer.

@spitfire
At least the Matter compatible products are local and non proprietary by definition, guess that these device use WiFi as Thread would require a border router.

@limelight79
You would know if it didn’t work, I can guarantee that as I was foolish enough to apply the update while being 700km away and not being back before August. Luckily most of my devices are Matter over Thread, so despite HA being offline I can still monitor our RV over Apple Home.

@Squizzy
While an integration is a piece of software running in Homeassistant, Apps come into play when things get complex, for example you need a server handling a protocol stack like MQTT or MATTER . Those run in a dedicated virtual machine and can even be installed on another physical machine.