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Hubitat Elevation C-7 Home Automation Hub (US Model) Expired
$89.95
$149.00
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Hubitat has Hubitat Elevation C-7 Home Automation Hub (US Model) on sale for $89.95. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member PeteyTheStriker for finding this deal.
Note, this hub is valid for shipment within 48 states mainland US only.
Includes:
Thanks to community member PeteyTheStriker for finding this deal.
Note, this hub is valid for shipment within 48 states mainland US only.
Includes:
- Hubitat Elevation Home Automation Hub (C-7)
- Internal Radios for both Zigbee and US frequency Z-Wave (908.4MHz)
- 120V Power Supply (US)
- Ethernet Cable
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Edited November 23, 2022
at 10:20 PM
For those wanting one, cheapest its been ever at this point previous deal price was $99.95.
https://hubitat.com/products?mc_c..
Sale good till Nov 30th per the email.
https://hubitat.com/products?mc_c..
Sale good till Nov 30th per the email.
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As mentioned the big advantage of this one, its fully local unless you want to use it through the internet you can, and it requires no subscription fees.
Check out the features page for more info:
https://hubitat.com/pages/home-au...n-features
Out of all the pre-built hubs, Hubitat is probably the best. However, if you want more advanced features and ease of use nothing gets close to Home Assistant. Which you can get some "pre-built" hubs for.
There is a bit of a learning curve with Hubitat, while rules for automation are pretty good once you have them setup, creating them are a pain, They seem to keep on adding paid features to try and suck you into a subscription.
In conclusion, Hubitat is a good cheap way to get your foot in the door of home automation. If you are really serious about home automation then Home Assistant is what you should be looking at and what many Hubitat owners do migrate to.
Here is a tutorial video on how to use the notifications app:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUpsW-SftVc
The Hubitat forum for those who are new to hubitat is a treasure trove of information and people members and moderators who like to help, if your thinking of trying something there is a good chance using the search function you can find someone else already tried or accomplished it.
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But off the top of my head Home Assistant has:
- 2,200+ integrations that are a one click install on HA. For Hubitat you have to install the package manager or search for integrations yourself. That's not including the thousand custom apps, plugins, utilities you can download using HACS https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/
- Addons - That allow you to install other server side software. Like AdGuard, AirCast, Plex, Spotify Connect, Unifi Network, and others. https://www.awesome-ha.com/#official-add-ons
- HA has excellent dashboarding utility with hundreds of cards to use. Hubitat gives you simple buttons or cards. No graphing on dashboard or pop-ups for alert. https://demo.home-assistant.io/#/lovelace/0
- For developing, really terrible language which is not very powerful. I've contributed custom integrations to Hubitat. For example serial over TCP wasn't a thing when I tried to do a custom integration.
- Energy monitoring
- Backup for Z-Wave network without paying
Like I mentioned earlier, Hubitat is great for beginners. But if you want something more powerful and feature rich, there is no comparing Home Assistant.
Hubitat just announced they have a HomeKit integration - so that part would be easy now. I actually use the Hubitat hub with Home Assistant. All the z-wave/zigbee devices are done with Hubitat and then passsed to HA. I did it this way as I'm using docker on a Synology NAS and that was easier for me than trying to use a Conbee or another USB z-wave/zigbee adapter which I understand would be needed if you go just HA.
My question: would getting a hub like this resolve this issue?
1. There is little to no support, outside of the community. The "engineering department" is vaporware. 3 times was told engineering is looking at it, and then no response ever. Had to rebuild my system twice since HE couldn't figure out the issues.
2. If you hubs sits unused for a few years, they will NOT be able to get it to start, since it has to connect to the cloud to startup and they have changed the cloud bootup process, such that older hubs( C4) no longer work, and they're so low tech, they can't figure out their own system.
Overall, not too bad a system, just do not expect that they have Smartthings level engineers, as they don't. Problems are you own to work out, unless they are super simple fixes or someone in the community decides to help you out.
Given this, my experienced opinion is to go Home Assistant. Yes it takes time to get used to, but the almost unlimited functionality and huge user database (~100K plus) gets you a mature stable system, that you have the most control over