Similarly, in mid-March of this year (2023), I placed a pre-order for Home Assistant Yellow with Crowd Supply, from whom I have purchased multiple times in the past without problems, when shipping was estimated for a few weeks after my payment.
That shipping estimate date has repeatedly been bumped out, without any notification to me of further delay, of why the shipping date changed, or of why the new estimate should be trusted after previous estimates turned out to be inaccurate.
Since then, they’ve become available from Seeed Studio, but I refrained from ordering because it looked like the Crowd Supply order would soon be filled.
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We can confirm a huge shipment left our warehouse either yesterday [July 26, 2023] or this morning. You should be getting an email confirmation here within the next 24-48 hours with tracking info!
I received notice today, July 28, 2023, that my Crowd Supply order of one “Yellow Kit with Power-over-Ethernet (CM4 Not Included),” placed March 15 of this year, shipped.
Has anyone that ordered an HA Yellow with CM4 just before they stopped offering them received shipping notice? I ordered back in December, and my shipping date is estimated to be August 31, but I was wondering if anyone has received their shipping notice early.
I also received my HA Yellow PoE just a couple weeks ago. Got it running with a CM4 Lite with 4GB and an nVME SSD.
I had ordered last November 2022 a full HA Yellow with CM4, but canceled it last month for a full refund as the delivery date kept slipping due to the CM4 shortage. My estimated shipping date prior to my cancelation was August 31st. If I had not canceled prior, I’d wait at this point. My understanding is that the backorders of Raspberry Pi CM4’s has been improving. Ordered my HA Yellow PoE in June, when I’d canceled my full kit order, while it changed from July 17th ship date, July 26th was fine.
Worth the wait. I added a ZooZ 800 series LR Z-Wave GPIO board (very inexpensive) and really enjoying the combination of Z-Wave and Zigbee device control all in a single hub.