The Smart Hubs
The smart home market is quickly changing and alongside it is the market for smart home regulators and protocols. While many have anticipated that the market should merge, in numerous ways the inverse has happened.
There are a bunch of choices to consider. Some are better, and some are more regrettable. They are all unique.
Coming up next is a bit-by-bit manual for exploring the smart home controller (also called "Hub") market.
There are many different types of smart home hubs available, but what do they do? and do you need them?
Unfortunately, the term hub is used in a very general fashion and can mean anything from a simple protocol hub e,g Zigbee to Wi-Fi or a complete home automation system e.g Samsung Smartthings.
There are:
- Hardware only hubs
- Software only hubs
- Hardware and Software hubs.
Some of these hubs are required by the networking technology you are using or planning to use for example Zwave, and Zigbee.
Smart Hub Features
The main feature you need to look out for are:
- Voice control
- Work with Alexa, Google Home, or Apple
- Multiple protocol support-Wi-Fi, Zwave, Zigbee,Wi-Fi etc
- Control via IOS, Android, and Windows
- Ability to use IFTTT rules (If This Then That)
- MQTT support
- IP support for connecting the cloud.
- Security.

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