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hey I'm Megan Willerton 14 and appliances here with a review of the wink hub so this hub can translate Wi-Fi Bluetooth ZigBee z-wave and Lutron clear connect products other hubs like the revolve hub Insteon smart things the Lowe's iris hub they all do something similar but what sets this one apart is really the price it's only $79 and through Labor Day it's only $49 hubs like revolve do the same thing but cost upwards of three hundred dollars which is a huge difference when you consider that this can do the same thing for so much less while some hubs are limited in terms of their protocols and the brands they can work with this one has a wide number of protocols and can work with a bunch of different brands so basically I just wanted to take things we had around the office that were wink app enabled and wink hub enabled and see how they all work together in the wink app the quirky arrows air conditioner and the Dropcam don't actually need the hub to operate but they can be operated in the wing cap the Lutron dimmer the pico remote and the kiddo smoke and carbon monoxide detector I'll use the hub but you can also control them through the app so I paired everything on the app alternating between a nexus 7 tablet and my iPhone 5 just to see how it work on Android and iOS platforms so I paired all of these devices with varying degrees of success the Dropcam and the Kida smoke alarm worked extremely well it was fast I had no issues at all the quirky arrows air conditioner took about 20 tries to pair at the right way and I actually had to call customer service to figure out how to pair the Lutron dimmer and the Pico remote basically you go through a list and select the product you want to pair and then it walks you through step by step what you need to do I found this to be a little bit glitchy though sometimes the app would stop it wouldn't advance beyond a certain point even though I had done everything the way I was supposed to but for the most part it worked after a few tries you can also create rules within the app so I could say if the Dropcam detects motion then these lights turn on or the air conditioner turns on or I can receive an or a push notification so when you factor in the growing number of third party product integrations and the price of this wink hub especially through Labor Day only $50 I think it's among the best whole home automation hubs we've come across Christina I'm Meghan Morgan