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 smart home platforms that you will review.

I'll also tell you which smart home hub to buy and how to locate your smart home hub in your home. We'll talk about interference, smart home protocols like Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, WiFi and Bluetooth, and I'll give you best practices with hubs.

That's 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:
Samsung SmartThings Hub by Aeotec – https://geni.us/AeotecSmartThingsHub (Amazon affiliate link)
Echo 4th Gen – 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 is a smart home hub for?
10:53 – Should you get a smart home hub?
3:51 p.m. – Organize the automations of your Smart Home Hub
28:02 – Can you use multiple Smart Home Hubs?
36:56 – Best practices with smart home hubs
42:28 – How to locate your smart home hub
47:06 – How matter is changing smart home hubs
51:32 – 17 of the best smart home hubs
51:50 – Cop
52:47 – SwitchBot
54:28 – Akara
55:42 – YoLink
57:35 – Philips Hue
59:11 – Lutron
1:00:27 – Welcoming
1:01:29 – Home light
1:02:32 – Google Nest
1:03:49 – Apple HomeKit
1:05:59 – Amazon Alexa
1:07:46 – Ringtone
1:09:00 – Touya
1:10:02 – Ikea
1:10:47 – Hubitat
1:12:25 – Home Assistant
1:15:07 – Smart objects
1:17:47 – Put it all together

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Thanks for watching, and Don't Hate, Automate.

Brian

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