Smart Home Hubs 101 - The Ultimate Guide
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The ultimate guide to Smart Home Hubs is here! Whether you want to understand how a smart home hub works, what a smart home hub is, whether or not you should buy a smart home hub, and how to organize both your home and your automations when using a smart home hub, this is the ultimate guide to smart home hubs and the smart home platforms you'll be looking into. I'll also guide you through which smart home hub to buy, and how to locate your smart home hub in your home. We'll talk about interference, the smart home protocols like Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, WiFi, and Bluetooth, plus I'll give you the best practices with hubs. This is as much detail as I can give you about hubs, and the future of hubs (or Matter controllers and the Matter smart home protocol) My 3 most recommended hubs: Aeotec's Samsung SmartThings Hub - https://geni.us/AeotecSmartThingsHub (Amazon affiliate link) Echo 4th Generation - https://geni.us/Echo4thGen (Amazon affiliate link) Philips Hue - https://geni.us/AYLHueHub Timecodes for Today's Video: 00:00 - Smart Home Hubs 101 1:19 - What is a Smart Home Hub 3:06 - What Does a Smart Home Hub Do? 10:53 - Should You Get a Smart Home Hub? 15:51 - Organizing Your Smart Home Hub Automations 28:02 - Can you use multiple Smart Home Hubs? 36:56 - The Best Practices With Smart Home Hubs 42:28 - How to Locate Your Smart Home Hub 47:06 - How Matter Changes Smart Home Hubs 51:32 - 17 of the Best Smart Home Hubs 51:50 - Flic 52:47 - SwitchBot 54:28 - Aqara 55:42 - YoLink 57:35 - Philips Hue 59:11 - Lutron 1:00:27 - Homey 1:01:29 - HomeSeer 1:02:32 - Google Nest 1:03:49 - Apple HomeKit 1:05:59 - Amazon Alexa 1:07:46 - Ring 1:09:00 - Tuya 1:10:02 - Ikea 1:10:47 - Hubitat 1:12:25 - Home Assistant 1:15:07 - SmartThings 1:17:47 - Put it all Together Join this channel to get access to extra videos, early releases, and other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtRSKEipM17PF7n0mi66btQ/join Subscribe to Take The Frustration Out Of Automation: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtRSKEipM17PF7n0mi66btQ?sub_confirmation=1 Our recommended smart home products (Amazon affiliate link): https://geni.us/3KzREP Automate Your Life is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com and other Amazon websites. Thanks for watching, and Don't Hate, Automate. Brian
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