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B-Rabbit

Lidl Smart Home Availability

Roughly a month ago my local Lidl was selling their ZigBee devices for about a week, and then they disappeared. As far as I know they will never sell them again and you can't find out which stores still have them.

It's just so mind boggelling. Lidl went through the effor to have the devices certified, made an app, made a lot of promotional material, and then after a week you just can't buy their Smart Home stuff anymore. They most likely still have a lot of unsold stock. Surely I'm missing something because it all just seems so stupid.

Posted Dec 30, 2020, 8:12 PM UTC

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starlynn5•

Lidl/Aldi do this all the time, they buy X number of units, ship them out to the stores then move onto the next product.

It'll pop up again some point in the future

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woods_edge•

There’s a lot of stuff they repeatedly sell, I suspect this will be the same as they went to the effort of doing the app, plus judging by my local stores it sold like hot-cakes

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frizbeano•

So I got a good bit of there gear

I got some of the switches for myself as 7 pounds a pop is great value. I paired them up with my zigbee2mqtt instance and home assistant.

I also got some bulbs for my brother at Christmas but backed off on getting the Lidl hub as I felt that to replace the equipment or support may not be as good.

I got him a second hand hue hub and the bulbs paired up nicely.

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member68•

Check out their online shop. I ordered twice already (even after you couldn't get these items in the store anymore).

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B-RabbitOP•

The Slovenian Lidl doesn't have the option to order online. I saw this option on the German website, but they only deliver inside Germany.

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