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Another plug for Hubitat: https://hubitat.com/

Does Zwave and Zigbee with Matter on the way at some point. HomeKit integration is in beta right now.

My fear is that Philips will do something stupid by pushing a firmware to the bulbs to lock folks into only using their hubs. Or maybe change colour reporting to some annoying method that won’t allow for accurate colour on a non-Hue hub.

The enshittification continues.

>>xattt+(OP)
Priced decent. Where do you pair new stuff? In their interface or homekit?

>>xattt+(OP)
Oh thanks for that, it looks very handy! I use ZWave and Home Assistant's support is functional but flakey since they moved to zwave-js. Plus I have better things to do that maintain my automation server.

>>xattt+(OP)
I've used an older version of their hub and it was great.

>>pcdood+k3
Pairing is in Web UI. Has built-in drivers for most use cases with a bunch of other devices supported by their very welcoming community.

>>pcdood+k3
Idk the hardware specs are pretty anemic for $150. OK I guess if you don't have any other device laying around. Zigbee USB adapters are $15 on Amazon

>>xattt+(OP)
With the most recent 2.3.6 release of Hubitat HomeKit support is no longer in beta.

https://community.hubitat.com/t/release-2-3-6-available/1247...

>>steven+Un
Do you have a link or a brand/model? I'm just recently shopping for smart home equipment and the Hubitat seems quite full-featured and I'd like to compare.

>>steven+Un
You don’t pay for HW specs. You pay for the whole package, with software and their continues updates.

And they take compatibility seriously. I’m a refugee from home assistant from 5 years ago, when each major update would break part of my automations because they deprecated some API. No such thing with Hubitat.

>>sithar+c6
can you share what you mean by flakey? I maintain the integration so I am curious :)

>>brainb+gB
It's perfectly suitable and it looks like one of the better out-of-the box solutions out there that respect user privacy. If I don't have any SBCs and just want something that works without fiddling, I'd likely go for Hubitat too.

That said if you're up for fiddling, something like https://www.amazon.ca/Waveshare-VisionFive2-Processor-Integr... will provide much more oopmh (and it's RISC-V) with 4GB ram and m2 slot, at $100 CAD, with mainline kernel support (so any USB devices will just work). Grab a zigbee USB + SBC like that, and you'd be able to run much more on your hub that just a gateway for your devices.