SmartThings Station has a Thread radio, but not a Z-Wave one

Samsung, which exited the SmartThings hardware business in 2021, is re-entering it with the all-new SmartThings Station, now on display at CES in Las Vegas. Outfitted with Bluetooth, Thread, and Zigbee radios, the new Matter-certified smart home hub is notable for what it lacks: a Z-Wave radio, a feature that was present in three previous iterations of the SmartThings hub. That omission doesn’t necessarily mean SmartThings is dropping support for Z-Wave, since the SmartThings Station isn’t meant to replace the Z-Wave-packing Aeotec Smart Home Hub (aka SmartThings Hub V3). But SmartThings Stati…

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