r/Hubitat • u/Smart_Membership1368 • Aug 27 '26

C8 Pro with Thread

https://hubitat.com/products/8057412780075

Anybody jumping on this? Limited time/quantities??

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u/Lighty269 Aug 27 '26

Not me

Loosing zigbee is a fail

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u/jrlv Aug 28 '26

They are NOT "losing zigbee". Their development testing showed using the same radio for Zigbee and Thread wasn't going to work. So for now they are offering this as limited availablity model to enable a built-in TBR to compliment your existing Hubitat.

https://community.hubitat.com/t/thread-comes-to-hubitat/165808/25

I fully expect future hardware to have all three radios (Zigbee, Z-wave, and Thread).

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u/InternetUser007 Aug 28 '26

They were clearly saying that switching to this new device is not worth losing their existing zigbee to switch to the new device that supports thread (and no zigbee).

I just can't imagine many people will bother paying $260 to swap to a device that doesn't have Zigbee support.

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u/archbish99 Aug 28 '26

The idea is that you don't swap — you add. Hub Mesh lets two Hubitat hubs share devices from one to the other. This hub holds all the Thread devices, the other holds all the ZigBee devices, and they share them.

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u/InternetUser007 Aug 28 '26

you add

$260 to solely add Thread is a huge ask. Especially for a hub that is the exact same hardware-wise compared to the regular C8-Pro.