You can use external TBRs like Google hub and certain apple devices.
These are community apps, not initiated or sponsored by Athom;
Of course Athom likes to sell their bridge rather than creating additional stuff for Z2M.
I understand. Deploying an OTBR with an external thread dongle in Docker is too complicated for me.
Will there perhaps be an OTBR application in the App Store for the SHS solution in the foreseeable future?
I highly doubt it, Homey apps don’t have direct access to hardware (like a Thread radio) nor do they have the ability to modify host network settings.
The OTBR app, as you know, isn’t developed by Homey but by Google. The only question is whether the app will be included in the app store, perhaps as a community app?
OTBR itself handles the app development and hardware configuration options.
I never suggested otherwise 
I’ve already tried to explain why this can’t work as a Homey app.
