But even then, it goes down to the manufacturing of that chip. RPi foundation chooses it because it's built to a cost and they cannot afford outbid people for it. So again, manufacturing profits. Whether it's because RPi cannot afford to pay more for those chips to get what they need, or factories are simply de-prioritizing those chips for others that make them more money.
Important tactic, but i do feel bad for the cons as they are usually entirely separate (and much smaller) entities from the studios that make the content.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation doesn't own factories... They have to pay for manufacturing capacity and thus are limited in that capacity because their boards are built to a very strict cost that they seldom raise.
I like the circadian lighting addon in HACS. All my bulbs are white spectrum bulbs as circadian lighting is the reason I got into home automation and smart bulbs years ago. I do think I sleep much better.
I have tried a lot of different ZigBee bulbs over the years so here is my two cents. All of these are referring to the white spectrum bulbs from these brands as that's all I buy, no RGB.
The BEST are probably Phillips Hue. I only use white spectrum bulbs not RGB so they are not $50 each, but they are still by far the most expensive.
My favorite are the cheap white label ones I used to buy from Amazon and Home Depot under different brand names for $5 dollars and were clearly made by the same manufacturer. The ZigBee stick even saw them the same. But I can no longer find them. They have an amazing price to quality ratio.
I really like the IKEA Tradfri bulbs but they are by far the most finicky bulbs I have when using a ZigBee stick instead of their native hub. They are fine 95% of the time, but sometimes they get annoying and won't turn off or respond too slowly, or they just stop responding and need to be powered off completely to reset them.
My least favorite is SengLED. They are cheap but do not act as repeaters so they will ruin your mesh network. I will never buy more of them.
I would also avoid the OSRAM Lightify brand, I think it's a Sylvania brand. Those have had the highest failure rate for me and it's clearly because they run insanely hot. They will burn your hands if you don't shut them off before changing them.
SengLED has the misguided idea that people shut off the power to their smart bulbs regularly so they don't sell bulbs that act as repeaters. Bulbs are the best possible repeater in a ZigBee network.
Nothing enrages me more than a password character limit. Thank you for making sure my password is LESS secure with your idiotic requirements based on security recommendations that are at least a decade old.
It's there because these boards are mass manufactured by chitu systems and shoved into almost every singe popular resin printer out there. They can be customized depending on what features the different manufacturers want for each model.
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Good luck getting a thousandth of that many cats to focus on the same thing.