…until I read that it doesn’t have an IR Reader.
I’ve been left in the lurch by too many companies when they go belly up to go down that route again.
Your loss, I liked what you had (might have been able to replace my entire HomeSeer system), and I was going for a Pro and Satellite, but nope, nope, nope. I think you really need to think of the long term use case.
I doubt Athom will lose any sleep over this 
You’d contact Athom support instead. This is (officially) just a user’s forum and no one can help you, except for advising to better read the properties and specifications of gear you’re interested in.
Since you took the time to create a user on the community, let’s try to get something positive here
If one of your priority is to have a possibility to learn IR signal, options are available. One is Homey and Broadlink integration
