What is Home Hub? We introduce the Echo device

The Home Hub is designed to control compatible Zigbee smart home devices. So you can easily use various devices with your Echo and control them with simple voice commands. So a hub is effectively a control center for all the smart home compatible devices in your home.

What is Home Hub? You should know

A smart home hub is, in a way, the foundation to build a smart home network. Only through a central control system can all devices communicate with each other without any problems.

1. Often, it is so that individual providers produce their own hubs to ensure optimal control and functionality.
2. However, there are some devices that make it possible to control several different devices together in one.
3. Usually, there is also an app to go with a hub, with which all functions can be performed centrally.
4. So the command is first transmitted to the hub and this tells the corresponding device what it should do.

Smart Home Hub - how is communicated?

1. In order for devices can also be addressed by the hub, they must first be registered in the hub.
2. Usually, this is done using the existing WLAN network. Viele Geräte können jedoch auch per Bluetooth verbunden werden.
3. Achten Sie beim Kauf unbedingt darauf, dass Sie nur untereinander kompatible Geräte erwerben.