AEOTEC has announced a brand new SmartThings compatible center at IFA Tradaying in Berlin which is sure to disappoint smart house enthusiasts with a lot of Z-Wave devices. The smart home hub 2 supports the material and has a zigbee 3.0 radio on board, but the Z -Wave standard – which is anterior to Zigbee – is no longer supported.
The new hub can also work as a wire border router, and Aeotec says that it is capable of twice the performance of the previous model (which we greeted in our magazine 2021), thanks to more RAM and a faster processor. It also has a low energy Bluetooth radio for integration and diagnoses as well as a USB-A port, but Aeotec has not revealed the function of this component will fulfill. It draws power through a USB-C port.
The AEOTEC Smart Home Hub 2 can also be wall.
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The smart home hub 2 can connect to your home network on Wi-Fi or with an Ethernet cable, and Aeotec says it is designed for local control first, so that your smart home does not stop if your wide-band connection breaks down.
Z-Wave had been an element of the SmartThings ecosystem since the launch of smartthings as a crowdfunding campaign in 2012. Samsung acquired smartthings two years later, but he stopped building smartthings hubs In 2021 in favor of integrating them into their intelligent devices and intelligent televisions.
Almost the same time, Samsung gave Aeotec the permission to pick up the Hub ball and run with it to keep the enthusiasts of happy smartthings. Samsung then reintroduced his own HUB in the form of the Matterified certified SmartThings Station at the beginning of 2023, but I could not find it in stock at no online retailers today, including the own Samsung store.
Aeotec did not announce the price of the new Hub 2 Aeotec Smart Home, but he said that he planned to send the new product at the end of October. We hope to have a practical exam shortly after.
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