Official WINK HUB Home Automation thread

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Oh that is cool.

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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

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I get my thermostats in on wednesday. You better help me get up to speed you sombitch

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i talked my FiL into a few as well as some friends here.

here's the cool thing: you set up the stats with the honeywell app..but you can also register them with the wink app and get all of the functionality of the honeywell app..but they'll be in the wink 'ecosystem' as you add more things.

no need to buy a hub to do that..wink app is free so you can try it out and see if you like it.

i can help you with the honeywells..i freaking love mine already.

i had a robot 'turn the heat on' yesterday based on walking to my house (took new baby for a walk) and it was really cool to see it actually happen.

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So what do I need the hub for? I want to do the lights and garage door

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i dont think either of those things. the hub is a master control that works with the various 'radios' out there..z wave, bluetooth, zigsbee, etc.

since both the chamberlain myQ and honeywells have allowed API access to WINK's app..neither of those 2 devices require the physical hub.

eta you need it for the lighbulbs..sorrry i thought you said thermostat and garage door.

the lightbulbs are z-wave i think.

but $20 for the hub tho

Looks like I'm headed to home depot tomorrow.

it is also $99 at Target and Best Buy right now.

Does the myq still have that annoying alarm prior to closing the garage door?

Re: myq, yes it makes beeps in case you're closing it remotely and someone is in the garage.. It's a warning. You can still use your existing garage doorbell button when you are going inside. Myq works with your existing setup.

Poo: those are all the radios on the wink board.. Wifi Bluetooth zwave etc. It supports about 7 or 8 different radio technologies for stuff to talk to it.

How long is the $99 sale at target on the myq?

Target also has the schlage lock! With the discount off that $200 it comes in at $160!