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UGREEN [ugreen.com] is offering a "Super Early Bird" discount with a $50 or $200 deposit ($50 for UGREEN HomeAgent HA100 and HA100 Pro, and $200 for UGREEN MasterAgent MA100). Available Sep 4 – Oct 26.
*Cancel and get a refund of your deposit at any time before the campaign ends.
*Cancel and get a refund of your deposit at any time before the campaign ends.
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UGREEN [ugreen.com] is offering a "Super Early Bird" discount with a $50 or $200 deposit ($50 for UGREEN HomeAgent HA100 and HA100 Pro, and $200 for UGREEN MasterAgent MA100). Available Sep 4 – Oct 26.
*Cancel and get a refund of your deposit at any time before the campaign ends.
*Cancel and get a refund of your deposit at any time before the campaign ends.
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UGREEN HomeAgent is pitched as a local AI home automation hub with NAS features, aimed at people who want smart home control without relying on cloud services. The appeal is the Home Assistant style flexibility, with room to add security tools like Frigate and expand into lights, shades, garage doors, and thermostats. The main pushback is price and value, since the hardware is seen as expensive versus building a setup from an old PC, Raspberry Pi, or a DIY homelab. Support also appears uneven for some devices, and reliability concerns linger from past UGREEN hardware issues.
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The listed pricing is widely seen as hard to justify for the hardware, especially the top model at $10,000 when a Jetson Thor is cited at about $5,500. The appeal is the promise of local AI and home automation without cloud dependence, but the value depends on whether that bundled convenience is worth more than building a Home Assistant or homelab setup yourself.
It can cover some of the same home automation use cases, but Home Assistant on an old PC or Raspberry Pi is a cheaper alternative. For users who want more control, Home Assistant plus add-ons like ESPHome or Frigate can replicate much of the functionality with more setup work.
No, not everything is supported out of the box. Garage doors can be added with kits or manual methods, and thermostats just need to support Home Assistant integration, but some devices such as certain garage doors and AC thermostats were not supported in earlier attempts.
Yes, the security side can be expanded with Frigate alongside Home Assistant. That setup is commonly used for camera-based detection and has plenty of guides, tutorials, and walkthroughs available online.
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If you're looking to add the security portion of the advertised functionality, look into adding Frigate into the mix. Google is your friend here if you don't know what any of this means or how to get started on your own. Plenty of online guides, forums, tutorials, and YouTube walk through.
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