All Your Smart Home Devices In One Place: Hubitat review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- Imagine all your smart home devices all in one smart home app? Now imagine if it didn't even need an Internet connection! This Smart home hub is seriously the best hub I've seen for amalgamating all smart home devices in one place for dashboards and touch panels, but also for Alexa and Google Home integration.
This video is sponsored by Hubitat, all opinions are my own.
I've managed to import my Philips Hue, my Ikea products, my Xiaomi Aqara products, and my cheap Chinese Zigbee 3.0 and Z-wave stuff, and I can control it all locally without the Internet! For anything that can't be controlled natively there is a community creating drivers to make your stuff work, and worst comes to worst there's always IFTTT. I am yet to find something I can't connect to it one way or another!
I now have just one Alexa Smart Home skill because any device that is controlled by Hubitat can be advertised to Alexa, Google Home and IFTTT... Or not if you want to keep them off the Internet, you literally tick the ones you want to advertise and it's that simple. The versatility and configurability is endless, it can be as private or as public as you like.
This is basically Home Assistant for dummies, and Smart things for nerds.
Products used in this video:
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Hubitat hub: hubitat.com/products
Xiaomi Aqara door sensor:
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US: amzn.to/2F5oClF
Zigbee plug socket:
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US: amzn.to/2FgH7Vx
BROADLINK RM Pro (And RF plugs)
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Broadlink RM pro US: amzn.to/2LZF1d1
RF Plug sockets UK: amzn.to/2QBWT3K
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Ikea tradfri bulb:
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US: goo.gl/6CWvhy
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BROADLINK RM PRO (controls Infrared devices like TV's and Set top Boxes, and also RF plug sockets and switches)
Broadlink RM pro UK: amzn.to/2suhRra
Broadlink RM pro US: amzn.to/2SAcT6R
RF PLUG SOCKETS (Controllable with the Broadlink RM Pro)
UK: amzn.to/2QBWT3K
US: amzn.to/2PqU4xB
SMARTTHINGS HUB (For Controlling Zigbee devices at beginner level):
UK: amzn.to/2ZsCL60
US: amzn.to/37cfVCh
HUBITAT HUB (For Controlling Zigbee devices at advanced level):
Global: hubitat.com/products
ZIGBEE PLUG SOCKET (REQUIRES ZIGBEE HUB SUCH AS HUBITAT OR SMARTTHINGS):
UK: amzn.to/2XYiR1P
US: amzn.to/2FgH7Vx
IKEA ZIGBEE BULBS (REQUIRES ZIGBEE HUB SUCH AS HUBITAT OR SMARTTHINGS):
UK: goo.gl/YQfesb
US: goo.gl/6CWvhy
XIAOMI DOOR SENSORS, BUTTON'S, & MOTION SENSORS (REQUIRES ZIGBEE HUB SUCH AS HUBITAT OR SMARTTHINGS, IT COMES WITH IT'S OWN HUB BUT IT'S RUBBISH):
UK: amzn.to/2t5sYXC
US: amzn.to/2ETwXcq
PHILIPS HUE DIMMER REMOTE (For use with Ikea, Hubitat, Homey, Smartthings and Hue):
UK: amzn.to/2Oan7XK
US: amzn.to/32JAYJJ
AISIRER WIFI PLUG SOCKET (Tuya Wifi - NO HUB REQUIRED):
UK: amzn.to/2MuVo3R
US: amzn.to/2tOx9Hs
WIFI SMART BULBS (Tuya Wifi - NO HUB REQUIRED)
UK - amzn.to/2F1cV01
US - amzn.to/2LsTZvj
WIFI HARD WIRED MAINS LIGHT SWITCH (ON/OFF) (Tuya Wifi - NO HUB REQUIRED):
UK: amzn.to/356ygQk
GLOBAL: bit.ly/32Vn0ox
FLIC BUTTON for controlling Wifi bulbs and other smart home equipment (Works by using your phone to relay the button press to your smart home equipment, if you want to do this without using a phone then buy their Flic hub too!)
SINGLE FLIC: flic.io/shop/flic-2-single-pa...
3 FLICS AND A HUB (starter kit): flic.io/shop/flic2-starter-ki...
3 FLICS WITHOUT A HUB: flic.io/shop/flic-2-three-pac...
LOGITECH POP STARTER KIT (Cheap equivalent to Flic, comes with a Logitech Pop hub)
UK: amzn.to/2pnOa9O
US: amzn.to/2Kh8Ffx
AMAZON FIRE TV STICK 4K ULTRA HD:
UK: amzn.to/2OtvDRG
US: amzn.to/2OzxxAz
BLINK XT2 CAMERA SYSTEM
UK: amzn.to/2QHDHkP
US: amzn.to/37sAIma
Paul, great review, was wondering since this review was 1.5 years ago, if you could talk about any new updates or changes! THX
Yes and also do you still recommend it or does the competition has exceeded it ?
Thanks mate !
Wondering the same lol
Hi all! I still TOTALLY recommend Hubitat. It is still the only sensible solution in my opinion to get all your devices in one place. Home Assistant is catching up, but until Home assistant starts coming with a Zigbee and a Zwave controller built in then this is still the obvious choice in my opinion. Home assistant has a lot of struggles when it comes to updates breaking things, and SD cards getting burnt out. Hubitat suffers neither of these problems and has an Alexa skill that doesn't cost anything. At present there is still no competition at this price point!
@@paulhibbert would you and @smarthomesolver consider doing a Hubitat vs. home assistant review like you did with the Philips Hue lights? I believe he likes HA better.
Echoing what others said, would love to see an update.
Great video, Paul. Hubitat is my platform of choice, and I always hoped that you would get around to it. The community forum is a great place to learn and interact with other users as well as developers. I look forward to seeing future videos as you dig into it more. Thanks for all the information you provide and the entertaining way you do it.
Thanks man, that means a lot! Will have to see how much call there is for tutorials on it. It will definitely feature as part of other videos though as it is now my personal go to hub for controlling my house :)
The hubitat app is to be released shortly, like 3-4 weeks. I just watched a live stream with the dev team and they are beta testing right now. Great video Paul and you're correct, this is the best hub. The team of developers and the community is so amazing, and for a measly 89 bucks, on sale through the weekend, it's a total steal. The new C5 hub now has internal radios, no more dongle thingy.
Thank you Paul.
Is the comment about the deletion of the USB stick correct, because the Hubitat site still says that it is required in one form or another (frequency dependent), for countries other than USA
Holy crap. Here I am researching hubs trying to move away from my smartthings / nue / Xiaomi / hue hubs and find a SIMPLE universal solution yet to no avail. I jump on the TH-cam app to relieve some stress and you have answered my question without even trying. I am totally getting one. Can not wait for the app though that will make life simple although in saying that Alexa controllable is all I need and quite honestly the amount of effort I have to go through to make Smartthings work with xiaomi and others I just really can not be F$#%ED. Sooo freaking excited for this. Honestly mate. You’re awesome. I wish I could do more for you then jus watch your videos and subscribe.
Sincerely thanks from Australia
Aaron
No worries dude! Hopefully you'll find it reasonably straight forward but if not there's a great community, and I've learnt some stuff along the way too if you want any pointers. 😀
smart man (paul )he is a real funny too
Yep, I want to add Xiaomi odds and sods too. And have a single place from which to control stuff. Would've preferred the cushion of an app, but maybe I need to warm up the brain cells and think deeper. The price made me catch my breath, but I can feel the cracks appearing in my resolve!
Can you do an updated review of the Hubitat. This device looks fantastic and has an app now.
Just bought a hubitat. I can’t wait to get some zigbee stuff including a light switch that might actually work with my poop no-neutral-wire wiring. Thanks for this video. Much love, from one TH-camr to another.
I'm glad you decided to review Hubitat. I thought you would like it, when I emailed you. I have not got one, yet. I am a procrastinator. Liked the review very much. Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestion dude. I love it and the guys at Hubitat are really nice :)
Loved all the sonic sound effects and music covers as well lol
+1 for the Broadlink and Tuya drivers and a UK distributor!
Love your videos. You should link this one in the description of the "my thoughts on home assistant" video. It's what inspired me to search your channel for this one lol
Amazing TomSka reference at 2:26. I love it!
Thanks Paul. 👍
Paul - love your channel. Nice and simple and most of it I can understand. Now I have a challenge. I have at least half a dozen "she who shall not be named" (SWSNBN) devices and I my lights come on before sunset, go off at 11pm, night light goes off after sunrise and all that kind of stuff. I can even tell SWSNBN to turn off the Christmas lights when we go out and on when we come in. Fantastic. My last achievement was to get two smart light switches working (are there any that do not require a neutral wire as that is doing my head in). And now my issue:
I have a smart switch in our lobby lets call it. I have a movement sensor. All are SmartLife. Now I want the light switch on when movement is sensed and then to switch off after say 4 minutes. I cannot figure it out. I have tried the SmartLife app (yes I think I can get the lights on now but there is a delay - too long a delay - and it is not consistent), Tuya, IFTTT. I also only want it to work when it is dark so linked to sunset and sunrise and just to be awkward, I want it to work when it is raining as it tends to be dark also. Any ideas how I might do this?
Best youtube channel ever!!!
You are a kool dude. Glad I found your channel. I enjoy watching you.
Thanks man!! :)
Great video one hub that does,it all sounds great to me
"One Hub to rule them all"
Looks good. Very similar to the WebCore functionality of Samsung SmartThings where you can find the driver and copy paste the code to add new devices.
Apparently it's based in that! A lot of the Samsung stuff works with very little tweaking :D
Hubitat Elevation is great as long as you don't use rule engine(4). I use a Raspberry pi4 with Node Red for most of my rules, and use IFTTT for the odd couple, as hubitat started to slow down to a point it took 20secs to turn a hue bulb on and i only had about 20 rules in rule engine, everything now turns on instantly and i have 50+ rules in Node Red. It's so much quicker to create a rule in Node Red and to change the rule too, rule engine to frustrating at best.
Great video! Would love to see more videos on Hubitat! Also hoping for native Broadlink RM Pro and Tuya support for Hubitat in the near future!
Thanks dude!
This looks like a serious contender for a SmartThings alternative 👍
I will personally be using it for everything! Probably won't do masses of tutorials on it unless people are screaming out for them, but it will be my personal controller for all my stuff :)
I agree, this looks great to be a simple zigbee / zwave controller. Much better.
Just need to get my house more smart switches as I don't want to do with bulbs and don't want Wi-Fi ones.
Light switches are my first thing to look into but not got a neutral wire in box. Seen Dan switches but quite £££.
Great video Paul! Thank you for your effort. Do you, by any chance, plan to make an update video on Hubitat? They've released a new hub (c7) and made lots of progress it seems. Could come in really handy, since I'm torn between setting up my first home assistent device or simply buying a Hubitat.
Appreciation
Thank you for this review and the rest of the content, as someone new to home automation i really liked the Hubitat review, what are your thoughts on Fibaro? It reads well just doesnt seem to be that popular/common.
Can the sensors (let’s say xioami door sensor) be paired to both Xiaomi gateway and that hub? Would like to keep both
Question: Can RTSP video be setup on the dashboard to view cameras anytime? or does it have a 1 button viewing option? I'm currently with ST but I'm considering Hubitat because of the dashboard function (no need for ActionTiles). Thanks. Great video BTW.
This is helpful, I got a question here, does Hubitat work with Hue Play HDMI Sync Box?
Your videos are awesome... The performance @ 0:15 guarantees that you will have my like in videos you have not uploaded yet 😜😜😜.
Thanks for the info. Could.i connect a camera to this? To record on motion trigger and send to my phone?
Best video I've seen about this Hubitat hub so far, thank you. I've been trying to figure out how to use this to set up the dome home water shutoff valve in my rental home after a renter flooded the entire unit costing nearly 100k in damage! =( I've set up the dome home but I have govee leak sensors from a previous purchase and haven't found a way to do it. Have you heard of anyone using Govee with Hubitat?
I haven't mate sorry :( Worth asking on their forum though, they're a nice bunch :)
@@paulhibbert thanks for the quick reply I'll definitely give them a shout. Thanks again
So there I was getting all excited as I'd been wondering how to get a single dashboard and add a few zigbee devices, but then I saw the price. Ouuuff, a bit steep. I'll have to think this one through a bit more! But, it's the way to go, thanks.
Yeah, it's definitely at the pricier end. Worth the extra outlay in my opinion though, I'm still just scratching the surface with it, I don;t think there's anything I won;t be able to get it to do for me :)
Thanks Paul, I saw this not long ago but was put off by all the coding. Thanks for your review - it makes it sound a lot easier than I anticipated, even I can Ctrl-C, Ctrl- V. :-)
It's an amazing product. It now runs my house!
What’s the best door contacts and lights to use for the Hubitat? Just bought it and want to get started. Thanks for the site 👍🏼
Great video Paul, I have been looking for a way to control all my "smart" devices with a single solution. i have just bought this on the Amazon US site £100 including import tax.
Nice!! You'll love it. I've now got it running my house :)
Hubitat or Home Assistant. I already have Home Assistant kind of running on my desktop but there are some things I have not figured out how to get into HA. I have all of my TP-Link plugs but none of my lights, one is a hue ( I don't have a hue bridge) I am still learning Home Assistant so maybe it can do it I just have not researched enough yet.
Hey Paul, would love to see you do a series of videos on setting up various things with these. Not a lot of good tutorials out there???
Thanks! It is something I'd like to do in future, we shall see how it progresses :) Their community pages are pretty good in the mean time! Lots of helpful people :)
I have two rooms (now together as one) with two different light circuit's, I want to control both from one wall switch. I thought I had found the solution with lightwave smart video (as featured on an earlier video). But then I've looked at this video and am wondering going forward if lightwave is the way to go. all the lights in the 2 rooms are dimmable LCD downlights but I have the added issue of possibly 2 to 3 LCD strip lights (I'm aware that lightwave are specific on the driver for these). I want to control from phone and from the wall switch. Help! is the lightwave the best solution? I don't want to buy a load if expensive hue lamps.
Thanks for the video! Does it work remotely?
It's nice. Got a few devices after watching your videos. It's a little more ... finicky that you let us believe though. Lots of stuff requires "community help" or "community code". And lot's of devices won't work out of the box even though they're popular in Europe. I think Hubitat is probably the best option right now, but even so, you're overselling it. Especially ALL WiFi stuff seems hard, not just some of it.
Hi Paul, What you thoughts on Vera Controller ? Regards, AJ
Best Hubitat review I've seen yet, good job. One thing that was perhaps slightly misleading, and it's a fine point I admit, the reason Nest isn't supported (anymore) is Nest themselves. Nest corporate policy recently decided to just say no more dev api access. Not really any fault of Hubitat's, and it was historically supported (natively, or via community drivers/apps).
But if you sign up and get developer keys, there is a community Nest integration available. Of course you can also control Nest via Google Home as well. Use routines in GH and a trigger from Hubitat to control Nest as well. Or IFTTT also works. Many different ways to control Nest.
Yeah, from what I gathered none of this is Hubitat's fault, but the upshot of it all is that you need an Internet connection whichever route you go down. It's a bit of a shame, but meh, not that big of a deal.
@@paulhibbert Ironically, Nest has a Zigbee chip in it. Too bad they never enabled it for local HA control.
No great surprise though. Flipping big companies love to lock their stuff down. It's a slowly changing attitude though I think, companies are finally waking up to the idea that integration makes their products more desirable and more profitable rather than the other way around. It's a really 90's concept to shut everyone out.
@@paulhibbert I hope you are right, but I am seeing the opposite. Vendor lock in in IoT reminds me of the early days of the internet and AOL's walled garden approach. Local APIs from big companies never seem to emerge... Wonder why... Could it be they want you to access your data via their closed clouds?
You should do a show on "Bad ideas" for home automation - Like - "Hey Google - run the bath for me", "Hey Google, turn on the gas oven and don't forget to light it"
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3:42 must be one of those new see through phones.
M*uthaf*aka, cam on here thing " yeah Bet I'll get the first comment and, what's right at the top, your comment! Lol
Just saw this video as I was interested in the Hubitat V2. Wondering if the integration with Harmony, Nest and IKEA home automation stuff has improved?
Hubitat Wow the best !!! ??? How often do you run Z Wave repair? Do you do this everytime you add a AC powered device?
Hey man, love your smart home vids. 👍
Can u connect all your IKEA bulps via the IKEA gateway or do you have to do every single bulp manually? I have like 30 IKEA bulps and it would be a pain to connect all by hand. The same question regarding HUE? Also, what was the total price for the Hubitat? Customs, fees, shipment and so on? If I add it up here in Denmark I'm gonna pay some 236 USD for the hub and that's a bit much I think
I was gonna recommend this.. I thought you’d never switch to hassio but I’ve been thinking of buying this.. how do you like it after using it for a while??
Little confused, would this replace the smartthings hub, also can you share say a door sensor with smartthings hub and the Hubitat??
Great video Paul. Hubitat has probably the most potential out of all the hubs I've looked at. I know a lot of people point to hass.io because it's "free", but that's not entirely correct. You still need some hardware to run it on, and you'll need to buy usb radios or chips to be able to manage the networks anyway. It also has a higher technical entry point due to the way it's setup and configured (which is totally fine for folks that want that). I like the HE hub because it seems a nice middle ground for those that want a supported solution that supports a lot out of the box (lower entry point), but then gives the flexibility to code extra pieces to add to the platform later. It would be great to get some localised distribution though.
I couldn't agree more mate. All of the above is exactly where I'm at with this thing. I'm going to check out some raspberry pi stuff again soon and see if I can achieve the same thing without too much pain, but having tried for several hours with home assistant and gotten literally nowhere I'm hesitant as I have videos to make!!
@@paulhibbert I see a lot of people running rpi alongside hubitat to host nodejs server, nodered, or even for logging. There is a way of controlling the broadlink via that path as well I think.
Yes, you can control the Broadlink stuff using either Pi or Android. I have the RM plugin running on my Nvidia shield and I'm blasting http at it from the hubitat, it works like a dream
@@paulhibbert Funny, I was thinking of using an nvidia shield for that exact purpose. Good to see it works. Handy little box that. I think I'll run plex server on it as well. :)
Hey Paul! I'd love to see you do a review of wink hub!😱 😉
Hy Paul ,between Smartthings v3 and Hubitat elevation c7 what should i choose?
You should do an update video on this Paul 😊
Great video as usual. Pity I've just bought a Samsung Smartthings hub. I did look at the hubitat but the price put me off and the fact that the US version is $99 but the one for the EU/UK is $124 and a lower model with their estimate of £30 import duty. plus you have to have a USB dongle stuck out of it. The price may get better and we may get the newer US model I suppose.
Thanks dude!... Think they're working on a new hubitat as we speak. Hoping they start to sell in amazon, as that will be a big block for a lot of people.
It's a difference in broadcast standards, Hubitat is a small company as yet and having boards made to cater to all localised transmission wavelengths is prohibitive, that's why EU/UK variants are more - it's basically adding the cost of the usb hardware. As yet the system is still finding its feet, I've been using the hub for a few months (UK early adopter) and with the latest dashboard updates and some of the under the hood tinkering it's starting to find it's stride. Having said that, it still needs a lot of polish and some streamlining to be really mainstream (in my opinion, at least). Yes, it's powerful and local - local! - but for anyone who doesn't actively enjoy tinkering with their systems then it's not easy to set and forget. Yet.
Looking forward to seeing how it grows though, and it's nice to see it breaking on TH-cam. They deserve some notice, the team behind the hub are incredibly dedicated.
Fantastic find Paul! , is it capable of controlling there Energenie sockets in place of the Energenie hub?
Hey dude, the Energenie stuff is 433Mhz RF, so sadly not. You could probably find a way to get it to control the Energenie hub, but not act in place of it.
Yes but how did you add the Aqara door sensor??????
Love this video! does hubitat work with yeelight's too? any guide on how to connect that?
Thanks man! 😊 Take a look here. It's quite a long thread, but from the chunk I read it looks like they at least support the bulbs, have a full read through as they may have got the led strips and stuff working by now too... community.hubitat.com/t/yeelights/408
Super cool 😎
Any chance on an update on this product? Have you switched to it? Or did you just test it for review?
Hi Paul , thanks to your videos I’ve been able to build my smart home for the last 12 months and slowly slowly I’ve been adding more and more stuff , I mainly use wifi devices and now I’m at the point where I want to add zigbee stuff like sensor and contacts to control lights without talking to the shit that should not be named lol , on top of that I want to have everything in a dashboard, I watched your video about home assistant and as you said “ if you don’t t have time to deal with home assistant , don’t do it “ and I don’t want to get involved into complicated stuff so I’ve decided to go with hubitat , I just have couple of questions before I go ahead and buy the hub , is it possible to integrate wifi devices into hubitat and trigger them with a virtual button within the dashboard ? , I have IFTTT pro atm , also is it possible to trigger Alexa routines with a virtual button from the hubitat dashboard ?
My main issue is that all my lights , bulbs , switches are wifi and they work perfectly with Amazon routines , I just want to have all my devices in a dashboard and control them .
Thanks buddy , you’re amazing. Greetings from Australia.
Hi Paul, I have been looking to see if you might have a video to my problem. I have just changed my internet provider. The old router I could have a lot of WIFI connections without a problem. I am using a lot of WIFI smarthome devices (light switches, light bulbs, plug scockets, SONOF) so need a lot of WIFI connections. My new providers router only lets me connect to about 20 devices. Is there a not too expensive way to connect all my WIFI smart home devices (AP, Hub etc) Love your channel, great having the comedy with the information. Thanks
Great job!! I noticed your shirt says vintage Superdry. Does that mean add alcohol get it Paul? Just a thought it is the weekend
Ha! It might as well mean that! I shall have to make my own t-shirt tht says "pour alcohol here"
I am new to this, do you need the hub for the Aqara Smart Door Window Sensor? I assume not?
I can not thumbs up this video enough
:D
How about sonoff? Is it integrated?
Hey I’m interested in investing in a Hubitat, do you still see it lasting or do you think it will be replaced anytime soon?
I would hate to buy one only for it to be replaced!
Thanks
i have driven myself insane trying to get my sonoffs working correctly using Home assistant and MQTT and now I find that there is an easier way. Now that all my sonoffs have been flashed with Tasmota will they work in habitat?
As I understand it yes! : community.hubitat.com/t/sonoff-tasmota/4100
Great video... !!! Could you please explain better how you did integrated Broadlink to the hubitat ?? It would be really helpful.
Thanks
Thanks mate. 😊 Basically I use my nvidia shield as a go between. The shield has the RM plugin installed on it from the play store (I might have had to side load it using a USB stick). The rm plugin then has all my devices programmed into it and then I ticked the "http" checkbox in the rm plugin to advertise the devices ascross the network. Its then just a case of getting the Hubitat to dial up the right http address for each device using Hubitat's rule machine software. I created a virtual switch for each rule and labelled it accordingly and hey presto, job done! 😊
@@paulhibbert where i can find the right http Address ? thanks
Is it will work with mqtt and esphome???
Would you think about doing an update on Hubitat. Im thinking about purchasing but everything I see on TH-cam is talking about Home Assistant.
Hey Paul can make a video about hubitat controlling broadlink rm pro. Would appreciate it. Thanks heaps
yes yes yes!!
I agree
Can it work Harmony Hub activities cause Samsung SmartThings don't work with Harmony Hub any more. And can it work with Samsung sensors?
Hei man, any updates on hubitat? I m playing with smart devices for about 5 yrs now. Started with xiaomy and ended up with way too many brands now. I was thinking to play with my raspberry pi but I think I m going to end up taking pills :D.
How s the hubitat so far?
How difficult is to pair wifi devices with the hubitat?
I see on their website EU and UK version. Which one should I choose?
Thanks!
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the most useful review. Did you have to use the version with a USB stick for Z-Wave with frequency of 868.4? It is a practical solution to making it universal, but hardly improves it visually.
I was using the version with the USB stick. I haven't seen a version without, but I had heard rumours! I keep mine hidden away.
@@paulhibbert Hi Paul, The two options for USA, both using Z-Wave of 908.4 Mhz have the internal radio but all the others, with a wide range of Z-Wave frequencies being used around the world have the USB stick. I suppose it is a practical way to avoid having to stock lots of different devices with the radio frequency being the only difference. Thanks again for your interesting and informative videos.
You're welcome dude! 😊
Would love to see how this will work with the Google home hub max ...or will it after August? Building home next year and trying to figure all this out. Google home, hubitat, both, smarthings?? Did check out the home "systems" but don't want to pay someone to come out and add a bulb! Thanks for the videos! All great.
Hey dude. The google side of this for voice uses the Google Assistant API, so it will be fine. It's just Nest it won't be able to control after August. :( Hubitat all the way for me, it's a souped up Smartthings, just needs marginally more technical know how to set some of the stuff up. Thanks for the kind words!
Can you do an updated hubitat vs home assistant
Paul, I live in Brazil and would like to know if this product changes according to the version, because I was able to buy through the site because it is specific shipping to some countries.
Hey Cesar, to my knowledge it's the same box all over the world (as long as it is labelled hubitat elevation), just a different power supply obviously.
Does Hubitat Elevation works with Apple Home kit?
Hey Paul, first time caller, does Hubitat work with BroadLink devices?
Not directly. Obviously it can be done via IFTTT. In order to make it work locally I've installed the RM plugin on my Nvidia Shield and turned on the HTTP server like I showed in the video. I then send http requests from the Hubitat to the Nvidia shield and it responds by turning on or off whichever device exists at that http address.. Easier than it sounds :)
Home Assistant works beautifully with Tuya devices
It does these days yes! Home assistant has actually come on leaps and bounds since then, though the nabu casa subscription is still very off putting for me.
Hey Paul are there any substantial updates in the last year to the hubitat you think are worth mentioning
None that I'm aware of. It's still my #1 recommendation for Zigbee and Zwave :)
I was just about to buy this after watching the video. But when it adds an extra $30 shipping to the already $110+ price I've had to rethink ☹
Help! Can you control 2 differents hue Bridges with the same Hue Account? (i mean remotely, not using local wifi) I Can't, When i try, I got a notification My hue Account is linked to the Bridge A, so I can't connect to other Bridge, inside each house no problem, but remotely, just in one, both houses are 500km one from other so, its very annoying to lose control from a Bridge and if you want solve something the App ask you press the central button
Hubitat can control multiple hue bridges, all local, no hue account login or cloud connection needed.
Can I control smart curtain with that?
Paul love the videos. I recently purchased Hubitat (USA). would love to see some vids on this device. Especially RM and cheaper Chinese products I have the bean(im cheap) I have ST hub and hues, currently have action tiles as my tablet interface on a fire 7 tablet, and also Several Alexa's and a single Google just to piss her off then she does not act right. Sengled, Oshram, Hues and sonoff bulbs, ST multi contacts (which are garbage worst $100 bucks ever spent on smart home products).GE and Sonoof wall switches and Wyze cams. Any videos would be great. Oh and forgot Lyric Thermo (Stay away from Honeywell thermos,Wifi issues on most models). Keep up the good work. Any links to Hubitat code or resource would be greatly appreciated
You can find pretty much all the code and resources you'll ever need on community.hubitat.com - plus a very helpful community.
@@robheyes6470 thanks for the info have been browsing the community
That's quite a list! hahaha. I have installed the RM plugin to my Nvidia Shield, but any Android box will do (including the Firestick I think!). In the RM plugin you can enable HTTP server and expose the Broadlink devices via URL. I'm then sending HTTP requests from Rule Machine to trigger them. Works amazingly well :)
Please does hubitat work with tuya devices?
Hey Paul. this is all great stuff many thanks. Now in Jan 2020 can you make an update on this since obviously watching so many of your other podcasts, things have moved on quite a bit since last year. If you have already done so, can you provide a link to that so I can catchup with your current thinking . much appreciated ;)
Hey dude. In respect of the Hubitat stuff nothing has really changed other than they have an app these days. I am still as much a fan of their work as I ever was. 😊
@@paulhibbert Cheers Paul. muchos gracias ;)
It would be interesting to compare jeedom, eedomus and hubitat
Does it support sunset timing? I mean I want to turn on a light after sunset when someone moves in front of the sensor?
Yes! :)
@@paulhibbert nice.. So does it support all time zone?
Hey Paul! Great channel! I'm just staring out with Smart Home solutions. Do I need a Hubitat?
Thanks my friend :) I would start out with something easier to begin with. I think Hubitat would have been very daunting for me in the early days. Smartthings is a good starting point if you're wanting things like Zigbee door sensors, and motion sensors. And the nice thing is if you decide later on to graduate to using Hubitat then all of your Zigbee sensors and motion will work with it too so you won't have to completely start over.
@@paulhibbert Thx Paul. Great advice! I neglected to mention that my inspiration to make my home "Smart" came from you and your channel, so thanks for that! I'm actually trying to contain as much as I can within "She who shall not be named". Would you be able to post a video dedicated to everything you can do in a Smart Home only with "She who shall not be named"? Keep up the brilliant content and will send you a beer by PayPal!
:) If you just want Alexa control for now then I would start with Wifi stuff, it's cheap and easy but I recommend sticking to only stuff that works with the Tuya Smart Life app, there are lots of companies that use it, and it ensures that all your wifi gadgets work under one app and that they're all compatible.
Once you reach about 15-20 devices your router will start to struggle though and you'll have to decide at that point whether to invest in a stronger router, or head down the smartthings/hubitat route. Check this video out for some other ideas for a good starting point: th-cam.com/video/Mhf0bF1oRNw/w-d-xo.html
A year later the US version no longer has dongles or even a USB port. The most recent US version has only power and ethernet connections and a reset button.
Got to replace my Wink hub...maybe Hubitat?
Welcome aboard
Thank you! :D
Home Assistant can control my Tuya devices and my Harmony Hub. Although, I had to install code to make the tuya devices work. I'm surprised if this is based on Home Assistant it can't do the same thing. On the other hand to my only solution to control some of my other devices like my RM Mini, Sonoff, and Broadlink home is IFTTT or Stringify. Overall though, this looks like a more useful device that my Smartthings Hub. It might be very interesting to see a head to head comparison. The thing I really don't like about the SmartThings hub is it takes forever to configure automations. I've spent more that 12 hours on my entertainment unit, and I'm still not quite happy on the way I have automated that. Should my SmartThings hub die, there is no easy way to move that automation to another hub... But once the Smartthings hub works, it works consistent well.
It's not actually based on Home Assistant - it's largely SmartThings compatible, most SmartThings drivers will work with just a few minor tweaks. Hubitat creates automatic backups nightly, and you can download them to a PC.
Paul any ideas what the HDMI port is for?
The only ports that are used are the power, Ethernet, and USB ports for the Zigbee/Z-wave radios. The newer C-5 hub is purpose-built and only has power and Ethernet connectors as the radios are internal. The C-4 hub was based on an existing AndroidTV box, which explains the extra ports. Since Z-wave frequencies are country specific, Hubitat is still shipping the C-4 hubs ,outside the United States, to allow for the different frequency Z-wave radio stick. The CPU, RAM, and Flash storage specs are identical between the C-4 and the C-5 hubs.
Thanks Dan! Good info!
@@Ogie-Wan Thanks Dan
Hi Paul/guys. How do I buy one of these Hubitat hubs? The link doesn't seem to work, their website seems unreachable and I can't find one for sale anywhere in Europe. What am I doing wrong?
Working OK for me dude... hubitat.com/products
i would love for some help with getting the RM PRO to work via an HTTP server. any video on that ?
Hey dude, towards the end of the below video I talk you through the RM plugin and setting it up to receive http commands :)
th-cam.com/video/UzPnvDyHVDs/w-d-xo.html
@@paulhibbert wow thx for your quick response 🙂
1 more question , if i have all my broadlink TC2 switches setup on my ihc app how can i choose to switch 1 of them in the rm plugin?
The Broadlink's reset switch is actually just a pairing switch as long as you don't hold it down too long. I have my RM pro paired to both IHC and to the RM plugin, so you can add and remove devices to both pieces of software independently :)
@@paulhibbert i try to pair my TC2 2gang to the RM plugin by long press the switch until it flashes rapidly but the RM plugin does not recognize it when i press the "learn a new code" button .
what am i doing wrong ?
Sup Paul, do you know if they finally come up with an app? Thx
Yes they have
@@techguyjon 🤜🤛
Im 100% with you that this is a step in the right direction, but do you worry when companies don't list a phone number or address on contact page?
The app for hubitat is available now!!!!
No way! Have you tried it? Is it any good?