Well the “Works with Home Assistant” program has varieties for “via Zigbee”, “via Z-Wave”, BlueTooth, Cloud, Matter.
Whatever some OTHER vendor hasn’t applied for and been approved for doesn’t really relate to here, because HELTUN got the “via Z-Wave” program.
Whether the point of “This is available through Z-Wave even without the sticker/program” isn’t so much of the point. Theoretically, everything Z-Wave SHOULD be compatible, just by virtue of the Z-Wave certification (one of the big selling points over Zigbee). But the point here is that
- Some Manufacturer’s went silent and stopped updating
So Home Assistant made a program to help the community have confidence in various vendors and keep the user experience from ending up crappy by requiring the Manufacturer to
- maintain the integration of their products in Home Assistant
- offer a good user experience
- give us (Home Assistant) an engineering contact to escalate issues
- Letting them (the manufacturer) use certain “Works with Home Assistant” badges, according to the agreement with Nabu Casa and the manufacturer
This is taken almost word-for-word from the first couple paragraphs on the “Introducing” post.
Introducing the Works with Home Assistant program - Home Assistant (home-assistant.io)
I’m CERTAIN HA is working with loads of other vendors - just look at how many other “joins Works with Home Asssitant” posts there are - and probably some vendors are not finding it worth the effort, or not responding. China will still slap whatever-the-hell logo they want on whatever product they want, regardless of what is legal, and that’s for lawyers to deal with.