When do you need a smart home hub and what’s the best way to use one? I’ll explain why a hub will help you level up your smart home. There are some automations you can do with voice assistants and IFTTT, but a hub will help you dial everything in.
If you already have a hub, this video will give you some tips for organizing your automations to be more efficient.
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I know I’m just scratching the surface on hubs but I hope this bridges some gaps to more advanced automations I will be doing soon. Ferris Bueller had some pretty impressive automations for a high school senior. I wonder what his smart home set up would look like… 🤔
With Samsung, you can use any of their Smart TV’s released in or after 2022 as a Hub, and that’s what I do now, and it works identically to having a hub, except without needing to buy one (I had the TV before deciding to go smart)
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I still don’t understand why i need a hub when i have a smartphone with Smartthings installed on it…
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