Awesome Tips Smart Home Hub or Nah? When and How to Use a Hub
When do you need a smart home hub and what’s the best way to use one? I’ll explain why a hub will help you level up your smart home. There are some automations you can do with voice assistants and IFTTT, but a hub will help you dial everything in.
When do you need a smart home hub and what’s the best way to use one? I’ll explain why a hub will help you level up your smart home. There are some automations you can do with voice assistants and IFTTT, but a hub will help you dial everything in.
If you already have a hub, this video will give you some tips for organizing your automations to be more efficient.
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I know I’m just scratching the surface on hubs but I hope this bridges some gaps to more advanced automations I will be doing soon. Ferris Bueller had some pretty impressive automations for a high school senior. I wonder what his smart home set up would look like… 🤔
Why is the hub $525. I thought it was less than $100.
You can only use IF THEN automation features if you have a HUB? is that correct? I simply want to trigger something that says – IF i turn on one device THEN turn on the others. Trying to figure out if i need a HUB for that simple task
If I buy a smartthings hub will it colate all my smart stuff across all the apps in one place because I have stuff that isn't compatible with smarthings app on my phone??
Can i use this hub to airthings wave plus?
Can you make a video of how to use it?
But if you do not have a hub can you use your phone to connect everything to the smartthings app and have your phone act as the hub>?
I like the old style Echo Dot because it's small also Newest.Technology, gives out decent sound and doesn't take up a lot of shelf space if you want to put it on beam in the workshop or shed.
Unfortunately, Samsung smartthings was discontinued.
Can the wifi hub with Plume be used ONLY as a hub for smart home? I have a brand new router that I really like and I don't want to use the wifi router part of the ST hub. Can that be done? Thank you!
Can i control the hub by connecting by Bluetooth. The Internet is not available for my project and no WiFi modem ?
Question though, how many hubs do i need? Just 1 for the entire house? Floor?
I'm not sure about homeassistant or Hubitat but it seems like Smartthings is definitely putting significant effort into including Wi-Fi based devices in to Smartthings automation. They definately see the consumer trends of Preferring the ease of Wi-Fi based devices. That Being said I still thing Hub based (zigbee/z-wave) automation is the way to go. Zigbee and Z-wave devices use less power when in standby (off mode) than their wi-fi counterparts and you're not sacrificing your wi-fi bandwidth on light-bulbs switches and outlets since zigbee and z-wave use a different protocol entirely, plus most wi-fi based devices require connection to a third party cloud service which increases latency and runs the risk of your smart devices becoming useless if the manufacturer decides to end support for the cloud service that connects the devices to the internet.
Great, clear info, and relatable on the family life reference, lol! Thank you for sharing this information!
Hi i am in the process to buy a hub and i am looking for the Aeotech smart home hub i would like to know if it is possible to control IP camera Axis M3116-LVE the camera is not wireless is there a trick to make it work?
Great video! Thanks
I have added a second bridge to control outdoor lights but now cant use it with google home automation because my indoor one is registered with hue account…this is such a disappointment..any idea if samsung bridge could help with this scenario ?
Hello. I don't get the idea of a Hub, I mean, I can create scenes (with all the advanced feature that you mentioned) on my phone with Samsung Smarthings. Why would I need to buy another device to do the same? (And by the way a really expensive one)
The best is the switch, wire … light bulb …
Fuck all that nonsense that only brings trouble
Thanks for showing great videos instead of sitting there and flailing your hands around like most annoying YouTubers are doing now.