If you only have a handful of smart devices, you probably don’t need a smart home hub. But if you have more advanced smart devices, think home security systems, window sensors and temperature sensors, ...

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A smart home hub is a device that connects and controls various smart devices in your home. It acts as a communication hub, allowing you to manage and automate different aspects of your smart home.

A smart home hub keeps all of your Internet-connected gear logged and controllable under one easy-to-use interface, but do you need one? Let us weigh in.

A smart home hub is like a central command for a smart home. It’s hardware or software (often both) that connects to smart home devices, allowing you to control them all from one app.

Now, Aqara has created a new video doorbell and camera system that also acts as a Matter smart home hub. The Aqara Doorbell ...

The hub was one of the first great ideas in the smart home: if an app was the brain, letting you automate and monitor dozens of connected gadgets all over your house, the hub was the nervous ...

The Aqara Hub M100 doesn’t look like your average smart home hub, most of which have a screen or are a sizable device that you can speak to, like an Amazon Echo Dot. It looks vastly different to ...

These days, most smart home products actually don’t require a hub, making it simple for anyone to raise their space’s IQ with a simple smart speaker, smart light or smart plug.

Hubs like SmartThings solved a critical problem in the smart home: the problem of power. Many devices -- from motion sensors to flood detectors -- relied on battery power. The problem was, Wi-Fi ...

Cheaper smart speakers like the Google Home Mini and the Amazon Echo Dot don't have the tech components necessary to act as a proper hub, but they can serve as a wrangler as long as you don't mind ...