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hi I'm rich brown frissina today we're gonna take a look at the revolve smart home solution so this is a wireless hub designed to be sort of the central nervous system for your smart home devices connect this to your home network download the iOS app and through that app you can control variety of smart home devices all in one place the ideas that is supposed to add convenience saving you from having to jump back and forth between various apps and giving you one place to control all your various smart home devices so revolve actually has seven different radios built into it out of the box it will support Wi-Fi Insteon base smart home devices as well as z-wave coming next quarter it will have ZigBee support it also has three other radios in it that will come online when more devices come to market so it revolves taking a curated approach the devices it will support out of the box right now you get philips hue support support for nest thermostats yale smart locks entity on devices Sonos music systems as well as a few others and i'm happy to report that all those devices and their different standards connected to that are evolved with pretty much no trouble now you get into the app and you'll see it's pretty bare-bones you only get basic on/off capability as well as maybe some brightness or volume controls for so most example you can't build playlists in the app and for hue bulbs you can't set some of the more specific programming capabilities there's no if support so you can't tie various functions into it say facebook notifications or twitter there's also no conditional behavior capability and revolve at least yet the company says all those things are coming though eventually the company hopes to eliminate hubs entirely like the one that comes with philips hue for example now this is no cheap add-on to the smart home it costs about $2.99 right now and I also expect to see more competitors come to the space of stay tuned expect prices to drop overall though this is a great first entry for this company and I really like this device I can recommend it Farmer Brown this is the revolve smart home solution you