"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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ZakJames wrote:

The big advantage with a standard like zigbee
is that it will continue fine even if the manufacturer
goes bust etc.

except the BG socket has WiFi, not ZigBee

Duh. If the quoting hadn't been stripped back so
aggressively, it would be obvious that comment
wasn't about the BG socket, it was about whether
all of those sockets would be at risk if the
manufacturer went bust or gave up on the socket.