Smart Home Hubs EXPLAINED - Beginner's Guide

A quick guide to smart hubs, the different types available, their pros and cons, and my top smart hub picks for beginners.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:16 Why you need a smart hub
2:11 Proprietary hubs
3:47 Universal hubs
5:21 Smart speakers
7:10 Matter
8:16 Best proprietary hub
9:25 Best universal hub
10:06 Best smart speaker

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[Chris-zues]

9:20 you say m3 hub will let you connect non aqara devices, but doesn't the M2 also do that?
I'm confused it say Zigbee on the box..
so what's the difference?

I'm thinking of buying the home assistant but I don't own a computer is that required?
I was looking at the GREEN version

[ReggyRay]

Wow! This was so informative!
I'm thinking I'll get a aqara m3

[AlexTeo]

some of the points explained are quite misleading, for eg. philips hue bridge, you still need if you like to have some philips hue products regardless of what systems you use, or an aqara hub you also need it if you are planning to use apple home. So I do think that all is depending on which smart home systems you want to use first

[timsbigadventure]

What about Homey Pro? It seems like that will provide the best option for connecting a wide variety of smart home products.

[ahmedalmonthiry]

Well done, can you please give us more options for universal smart hubs that can support Zigbee and thread? Thanks

[adambezark]

Very helpful explanation, thank you! One big question that I’m still trying to understand: if I have a larger house, do I need multiple hubs to get complete coverage? How big is the range on each hub? Or do they use other protocols like Thread to extend their range, meaning I only need one hub for the whole house?

[Anton_Johansson.]

Aqara Hub M3 support Matter. Does that mean that all devices that also support Matter can connect and be used with the hub?

[vortexlisa]

My home is full of hubs lmao... I really need to try a universal one...

[SuperBOXmallix]

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