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SwitchBot is buying Nanoleaf.

[laughs] Big news, I guess.

Uh, there's an, uh, there's an article over at, uh, Matter Alpha that's talking about how, um, Nanoleaf reportedly did a, uh, uh, had a deal, uh, to, to, to, to purchase SwitchBot, and Nanoleaf is switching [laughs] to AI and robotics.

So all those fancy lights that TJ has or used to have, I guess you probably used to have at this point, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Th- they're, they're, they're gonna be SwitchBot lights now.

No, I, I do still have 'em.

I...

Maybe this will make 'em work better.

So I've had a couple Nanoleaf products that Nanoleaf themself has sent me, um, and I could never get them to work long term.

They would just always disconnect from my Wi-Fi and everything, and I don't have problems with anything else on my network.

Uh, specifically, I have the permanent outdoor, uh, lights that they sent me, um, and those I have never been able to make work on Wi-Fi even though I have outdoor access points and everything.

So I don't know, maybe it's something with my network.

It probably is, but I've just never had luck with Nanoleaf products.

My SwitchBot stuff all works great.

great.But all that works via Bluetooth and their hub, so.

Yeah, it says here w- uh, Switchbot has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and their hubs, and Nanoleaf has Thread and I guess Wi-Fi as well, right? So-

Yeah.

Hmm.

Interesting.

May- Well, I don't know.

I feel like, I feel like these articles where there's consolidation like this, where people either give up or go away or switch or whatever, I don't know.

I feel like this means that they kinda come to the end of the party on the [chuckles] the, like these types of devices.

Uh, I mean, there's tons of lighting devices out there right now, like smart lighting devices, right? Govee, like is a, is a huge player in the space now.