Gadgetory

so the Smart Home Hub promised to consolidate all different connected home gadgets to make one universal place where you can access all of your devices that's what the original wink hub did and that's what the wink hub 2.0 right in front of me is also supposed to do available now for 99 bucks the wink hub is supposed to be an improvement over the original model it has a few different things that added Bluetooth it's supposed to be more reliable it's supposed to be safer it's supposed to make all your connected devices connect more easily but my experience testing it is that it's roughly the same as the original and that's really frustrating because I was hoping to find that smart-home ideal where I could control everything altogether now the one major bonus is that you don't have to commit to a specific protocol so you can have a ZigBee you can have z-wave you can have a Wi-Fi you can have Bluetooth you can have clear connect from Lutron and you don't have to commit to alexa or apple homekit you can have it all that's great but in terms of usability it was still a little glitchy I still had some issues creating robot switches winx version of rules was still kind of difficult and i got a user error it's that internal error 500 every time i tried to create one and it didn't actually work for me so there definitely still some kinks that whink needs to work out so I didn't get into everything here I tested out a lot more stuff for that check out my full review at Cena comm but overall I think this is a reasonable option but it still needs a little more work to be the smart home ideal consolidation device that we've been waiting for