re: Official WINK HUB Home Automation thread

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HUB teardown

Wink Hub Radios

you can see a bunch of the radios they support on the board; WiFi, BT, Lutron, Z-wave, etc.


- hub is super cheap - lots of deals going on where the hub is either free or $20 if you buy a couple of wifi lightbulbs. worth getting it to play with it at that price.
- works with android wear
- supports lots of radio technologies- lutron, zigsbee, z-wave, WiFi, bluetooth, kiddie..granted i dont know what all those are it supports a TON
- **ROOTABLE** yes kids thats right, this thing is rootable at the moment..as long as you don't let it connect to the internet & download the firmware update first. this root access is removed in the updated firmware so you gotta root it before you do anythying else
- robots & shortcuts - shortcuts are little toggles you can setup and control from you WEAR (see pic above) like 'turn heater on' or 'turn all my thermostats off'
- robots on the other hand, take shortcuts or things you set up and string together in a macro..like 'at 5 pm turn the heat up and the lights on and open the garage door'
- proximity built in! this is very cool..i set up a robot to notify me when i arrive home..i get the notifiation on my watch and in email about 2 houses away from mine. So cooL! you can set a proximity robot to open the garage door & turn the lights inside on & junk when you get home.
- so far the easy win for devices are:
--> the honeywell thermostats i bought work BEAUTIFUL (via api)
--> garage door opener (myQ) that will work with any existing garage door
--> those $15 GE WiFi lightbulbs.

Best part is the one app to 'rule them all'! while the myQ and honeywell websites and apps do some of this stuff..having WINK tie into this, you only need the one APP and you can use robots and shortcuts to tie everything together!

so very cool stuff..i encourage you to try it out..espeically now while the hub is so cheap and hackable