All Smart Home Devices In One Hub!?

[@paulhibbert]

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[@khalilchan2485]

Do wi-fi bulbs like lifx or tapo be linked to homekit Edit: I know lifx already works with homekit out the box

[@paulhibbert]

@@khalilchan2485 sadly not, Tuya wifi products can only be advertised to HomeKit using hoobs or home assistant as far as I know

[@GLaDOS4Life]

My dude... If I could marry you, sleep on separate floors, never get closer than 6" to each other, never say sweet nothings, just to have the opportunity to crack up all day, I would. I love you man, keep up the stupid shit that is solidified in tech that we love. Cheerio! ...or whatever it is you say across the pond ♥️

[@annakarinahaumannrasmussen5984]

>One hub to rule them all..< I'm waiting for, The Fellowship of Matter, to hit your channel :)

[@chancethetechie]

I can honestly say I watch many of videos despite not caring about the device strictly for the comic relief. You've really mastered the infotainment thing here, don't stop!

[@rickfest]

The return of Luke has made this your greatest video of 2024 already 🤣 Keep up the great work Paul!

[@paulhibbert]

🤣 Luke is so angry at you right now!

[@tazmaniachill]

I bet Luke would be an absolute riot at parties 😂

[@Raytenecks]

I often don't appreciate your skits, but I do appreciate the work you put into really testing these devices to see what they can and can't do. Thanks!

[@Spybotfan77]

I Appreciate the humor. So many tech youtubers just showcase the product with fancy camera work. Sometimes a little brevity is a good thing.

[@lovellneil]

I saw the stick joke coming from a long long way a way. I still spat out my coffee, my cat solace was not amused

[@paulhibbert]

🤣 give solace a fuss from me!

[@soundman127]

One of the old ones that still makes me smile - same for the picture of Paul 'on the fly'.

[@RobDickson69]

I'm the same with "Don't tell him, Pike". I laugh every time.

[@robbokeys]

@@paulhibbert thank you Paul for your channel, I work in Assistive technology and your channel is so useful for discovering new products & great watching reviews plus I love the humour & look forward to the videos 🙏🏻 ps- thanks @lovellneil for telling Me about the channel- peace and love… rubber glove 🧤

[@paulhibbert]

Really put a smile on my face that did my friend 😁 thank you ❤️

[@moorevfr]

Paul don’t change ever! You being my laugh as well as tech info!

[@user-yh8rn9bc8q]

Also, a commenter on Amazon said the the hub did not recognize any of his Tuya wifi outlets. What are the specific qualifiers for this hub and Tuya devices? As in, is it only Tuya wifi devices that are ZIgbee or Matter and straight Tuya wifi devices that connect directly to the Smart Life app thru wifi will not be "recognized"?

[@watchme.leonardpowers]

Morning Sir. Coffee - Check, Rustlers Breakfast Muffin - check, Wife away - Check.

[@paulhibbert]

morning dude! 😊

[@Ichijoe2112]

Does this work with older Ikea Trådfi Lighting? Also will this be configurable with Home Assistant, to that end can Home Assist take control of the Hub?

[@paulhibbert]

Definitely not tradfri, it can only take 3rd party matter devices. Not sure about home assistant. I would think the answer is not YET. Someone will likely create an integration

[@Ichijoe2112]

@@paulhibbert Thanks for the response. My question was steming from the point of view that Trådfri Light(ing), was in fact Zigbee based*. * According to the Original packaging description.

[@Digikidthevoiceofreason]

Alright Paul. After watching your videos for the past year I have decided to subscribe to you. Congrats!!!

[@JWW855]

I'm waiting for the day when they play nicely together before I start my smart home. I won't impress my friends, but I will still impress old people. Haha

[@JoshsSmartHome]

Great video, but this hub doesn’t seem to support the other zigbee and all the zwave devices - so critical devices can’t be natively supported that lots of folks already own.

[@DAveShillito]

I think all we were missing this week was your Masterful Baiting performed On a Fly 😁

[@DavidFrankland]

ah the test card gag 🙂 good to see the air humping return though

[@RobDickson69]

Also no humping for Home Assistant. There was Zigbee humping though.

[@steve_787]

Question Paul, will you be looking at solar and home batteries for your new place? Looking into them myself and how I might be able to setup Home Assistant to work with it all and trigger possible routines when there's excess solar etc.

[@paulhibbert]

I have my work cut out for me with the garage conversion right now, but maybe in the future!

[@David-bl1bt]

Yep, I'd be interested in that topic too! So get your scates on Paul

[@steve_787]

@@paulhibbert cool, can't wait to see the garage. My dream is to change "she that shall not be named" wake word changed to "computer" (which I know can be done) but then have it respond in an AI replicated voice of Majel Barrett (guessing his would need to be a routine triggered in HA?) so I can ask things like; "computer, status report" and then get feed back on battery charge status (renamed to something like warp core), solar production. Or initiate a "barrion sweep" to start the robot vac/mop. Daft stuff like that...

[@paulhibbert]

@steve_787 I love this idea! I will be stealing it! 🤣

[@steve_787]

@@paulhibbert please do, when you figure it out I can steal how you did it 😉

[@lotusboyuk]

Im redoing all my smart tech so its local as when the house wifi goes, the house dies lol (or bt changes the mode setting lol) im REALLY REALLY looking forward to the linknlink smart hub with tablet as it can be wall mounted for my wife lol. This video has now made me wonder do i wait or by this to get going ahhhhh. Keep up the vids😊

[@peterhanlon5303]

Brilliant! Worth watching just for the Luke roasting 😂 Thanks for brightening up Saturday morning’s 🫶🏻

[@shanenorth100]

Paul you are now firmly part of my weekend routine, keep it up & don't change. Single question, when you added the hub to the Smartlife app did you have to pair all your existing devices to the new hub or did they simply migrate over? Cheers

[@SJPDurham]

So enjoyed the humour as usual Paul. Keep up the good work. Sorry I haven’t been on much, but Mother is back in hospital again and believe me these little bits of humour keep me sane.

[@michaelangellotti5741]

I absolutely LOVED the Star Wars reference !!

[@RNMSC]

Anyone who comes here just for the tech would be better off heading over to superhouse. The entertainment value is a significant reason to be here.

[@tomaszmiekina801]

Sounds great, but will this device make aqara and tuya work together?

[@masteroc]

Thank you very much for being the only review/place that answered my question: will this work with other manufacturers zigbee devices. Amazing that it was so hard to find that information.

[@Techlifeandmore]

So if I want to use this to get Tuya Zigbee devices into HomeKit, can I temporarily connect it to the Smart Life app to add those devices and then go into HomeKit and remove that connection, and the Zigbee devices will remain paired?

[@Kyle-Russell]

I would love it if you teamed up with some other KZbinrs and different companies to build a perfect smart home for a disabled person

[@kwooffindin]

Hi , great videos . Any idea how I add my zigbee hub to echo dot . Thanks . Ken

[@garybooting_co_uk5866]

Ignore those who have nothing better to do than slag everyone off who make an effort to entertain as well as inform of the latest tech!!!! Keep up the great work Paul - disregard minority !!!!

[@rrassoc]

What am I missing? My Hubitat Elevation hub has connected a whole bunch of different platforms. That said, I did need an upgraded Lutron hub, but Hubitat allows me to ignore it. I suspect Lutron can't be directly controlled by anyone else's platforms. I'm any case, I don't foresee ever moving away from Hubitat.

[@paulhibbert]

This is cheaper and aimed more at beginners. Hubitats Ui is still way too complicated for most people

[@FredSchmitthammer]

I look forward to your videos every week. The humor is awesome and the tech info is spot on. Hmm spot on... Looks like we need a video joke for spot on.....

[@GaelyneGasson]

Great video, Paul. I really enjoyed it, especially all the funny bits! I have big hugs for well, you of course, but also for RazorGirl - as someone who is disabled and uses home automation - anything that makes my life easier is truly appreciated. Could you also tell Aqara to make those little buttons for pairing the devices to the hubs much easier to press and hold?

[@user-yh8rn9bc8q]

Thanks for the information (and the "Stick".) I am primarily running Wifi based Smart Life smart plugs etc., Google Home App, and Broadlink. I am comfortable with Google Home Dashboard and the voice assistants. What I need is better response especially cameras which Google Home can rarely even display a live video feed. This hub will run locally. My question is will it greatly improve the response time on units from smart plugs to video feeds?

[@drawzeywazig9096]

I'm looking for a io input device for home assistant, so i can just use my normal cheap ass classic elektrical switches and put the inputs into a relay. Then that relay should communicate with some io device that talks with HA over (preferably?) matter & thread? I think this device doesn't exist yet? What would you guys recommend?

[@rxs87]

Do you know if you try to turn on multiple ZigBee lights at the same time if they show the popcorn effect? Or they all turn on at the exact same time like the hue hub?

[@blaynesheets2979]

Back to the old school "Hibbert Home Tech", I dig it!!!

[@redmantech8167]

Would love to see you do a video on how smart hubs are becoming more and more available to non technical people. My father who’s in his 70’s has embarked on HomeKit and with limited knowledge has deployed smart plugs and a relay for a garage door. I think he’s only getting started!! Is video on automation for the masses would be great

[@techydude]

I seem to remember it was *you* who made the astute observation that there was nothing in the Matter proposal which actually compelled OEMs to interoperate! So this would seem to be a promising development!

[@simplelifesg3459]

Thanks for review Paul. One question - I presently have several Tuya Zigbee devices already setup on a Tuya Zigbee hub inthe Smart Life app. Would I need to re-setup every device so that I can use them with the Zemismart M1 hub? 😅 Thanks in advance.

[@jzky]

So, next you try is the homey pro hub? Pricy but seems to support em all

[@DaveBjornRapp]

Can you review the Homey Pro soon? It seems to be similar to the Zemismart Thread & border router.

[@TheGruffalo]

Hi Paul. Loving the channel, keep up the great work entertaining and informing us. I need your advice. I have some smart home equipment including half a dozen tuya compatible smart plugs, a Bseed no neutral lsmart wifi ight switch, some WiFi rgb led strips, and a broadlink rm 4. All good, and everything works with Google Home Assistant as required. I am about to redecorate the bedroom, and instead of bedside touch lamps, we want to install bedside pendant lights. I can power these from the existing main lighting circuit (always on) , but I don't want to chase out the walls to fit wired mains switches either side of the bed, so I hit upon the idea of smart bulbs, and wireless switches. I started considering tradfri bulbs and remotes, but the switches are just not nice looking, which led me to friends of hue kinetic switches which need no batteries and can dim the bulbs like sinic-gira or retrotouch, but seem to use zigbee green power, and I can't find a hub (other than hue) which will work. This is the most complex thing I have tried to evaluate, and any advice on suitable products and alternatives. Dont let me turn to the dark side!. Pretty please make a video, or reply with your thoughts, I can't be alone! Thanks a million.

[@clariciogara]

Hi Paul , I'm starting my smart house project, I'm in the us , I would need light switchs single and 3 way, smart plugs, and smart Bulbs, what do you recommend for me, I'm not a KZbinr but I will make a video out of this one, thinking you for it and you can use in your channel if you want. I just know you seam that you know that stuff better then I do on the type of device, in the future I would love to do home assistance just to keep that in mind too. Thanks looking forward to hearing from you

[@GabrielLamounier-REZLAM]

I’m starting my smart home, and I know the future is matter, but zigby is so inexpensive, should I go Aqara or Tuya?

[@paulhibbert]

Aqara, all day 😊

[@SirHackaL0t.]

A shame that KZbin keeps downgrading videos from 4k to 720P on the iPad. No idea why but I have to keep telling it that I want 4k *per video*!!! Makes you wonder why they allow you to upload 4k video when they want us to watch at 720P.

[@paulhibbert]

Super annoying! I bet they do it to save bandwidth. I’ve noticed it on my Mac often too!

[@zahirwaliji5031]

Ive just ordered a Zemismart matter hub and a Zemismart Apple HomeKit hub to see what the difference is! Very cool video thank you. I wonder how well matter devices repeat to other devices compared to Zigbee ones (which work great in a large house) Oh and I’m also hoping this hub will make my Aqara FP2 sensor more useful as it’s so unreliable through Alexa - to work with SmartThings

[@gedgicat2063]

Paul Hibbert just got roasted. Both funny and educational at the same time and to top that he also answered all my questions before I could ask them. Amazing keep it up sir

[@marsrocket]

Doesn’t Hubitat already do this? And has been doing it for some time?

[@fenceup07944931177]

Ooo the Tuya, ooo the Tuya. At last a product that 1 I can afford and 2 I'll find very useful. Perhaps you can start giving some love back to Tuya.

[@Xiltch]

LOL love the bane impression!

[@Killingsteak29]

I love your combination of comedy and tech.

[@mathewtaylor2007]

But tuya is still cloud dependent isn't it? No local control?

[@paulhibbert]

You need the cloud to add new things, it works without the cloud with them once they're added though. The only thing I'm not sure about is how long they would work without the cloud, i.e. if the company went bust.

[@mathewtaylor2007]

@@paulhibbert thanks Paul! Yes always a bit of a worry with a lot of this stuff.

[@leecromer3289]

@@paulhibbertis this not the same with the aqara m3 hub?

[@seraphuziel]

Padme with a 5 o'clock shadow, was damned unsettling. :D

[@nefariou5]

padyou? I hardly know you.

[@biggusdickus5986]

​@@nefariou5l know, the nerve of somepeople 😂

[@tebohokhoabane3596]

Hi Paul , Can Tuya Smartlife Zigbee products added to Zemismart appear on Home assistant ? would you be so kind to advice how . thank you

[@paulhibbert]

To my knowledge they would appear automaricay when you add the tuya integration, but personally I prefer to add Tuya ZigBee products directly to a ZigBee stick attached to my raspberry pi. They work really well that way.

[@tebohokhoabane3596]

@@paulhibbert Thank you for feedback

[@r.fortal6322]

Any idea about moes Zigbee TRV radiator valves?

[@Yuriel1981]

So intergrating this into HA with a local LLM voice assistant means i can finally have complete control over my Smart Home without a cloud based service? Thats awesome.

[@chechob83]

Nice videos as always. What’s the biggest difference between this one and homey pro in your opinion.

[@paulhibbert]

Honey pro is much more advanced (wave being the most obvious addition), but also much more expensive.

[@c-tech_]

This video came up in my recommended list again. So I watched it a second time and it’s still hilarious 😂😂😂😂

[@paulhibbert]

😁

[@adamkrtek9004]

Here I was thinking Pauldme was my favorite new character when along comes spiteful Paul crapping on Luke in the same episode. My Saturday morning could not have started better

[@Swiv2020]

Love the channel mate and you're one funny guy, Keep up the good work 🙂👍🏼 !!! At £45 you just can't go wrong with this... I mean the missus spent £32 a bottle of wine last week and that lasted 2 hours.

[@technoah3346]

The fact that Paul just publicly humilated a "fan" is hilarious! That's one way to make people stop puting hate comments down!

[@tremuloustetra9083]

I'm paralysed in the neck down so all this home automation has been a massive boon to my life. I hate having all these different hubs, so I'm trying to reduce them to the minimum. I have a switchbot on my computer power switch, and have just got 2 switchbot door locks. Want to be able to control them with voice control/Google home. So I wondered whether I would be able to use this hub with the switch bot locks and the switchbot switch. Or do I need to buy switchbot hub? The only other things that I need on this hub are Moes Zigbee radiator valves. To add to the problem I have a bungalow so the footprint of the bungalow is quite large, in fact the 2 door locks will be 29 m apart, and the hub will be roughly in the middle of the 2. Does this hub have that range? Alternatively, if I cannot use this hub, would the switchbot be able to control my radiator valves instead of the zigbee, instead of the zigbee gateway I'm using at the moment?

[@paulhibbert]

Hey man, unfortunately this hub isn’t compatible with the switchbot stuff, because although Switchbot’s hub is Matter enabled the actual devices themselves aren’t. So yes, the switchbot hub is required sadly. The moes gateway looks like it uses Tuya smart life, so you could use the moes radiator valves with the hub featured in the video instead of the existing moes hub, which might save you a bit of trouble going forwards as the industry slowly moves to matter devices, but if you really want a truly open system then home assistant on a raspberry pi is the way forward and I think that’s what you ought to go for personally. You would still need the switchbot hub, but you’d have a lot more freedom as you buy more stuff 😊

[@tremuloustetra9083]

Thank you very much for your information@@paulhibbert Much appreciated

[@tremuloustetra9083]

@@paulhibbert Thank you very much

[@CarlRyds]

Will the Aqara Hub M3 be as good as this one?

[@LordUnforgiven90]

Man you “ bashing” on your own content was hilarious!!! Made me laugh so hard. Sorry because in some way that s the kind of criticism you get but I suppose it was meant to be funny and it was ! Thanks man

[@leopold7562]

Damn! This thing is soooooo close to being brilliant. Just support all the Zigbee, guys, it’s supposed to be a standard

[@paulhibbert]

Bodes well for the future though as Zigbee gets slowly phased out.

[@airwebber]

Do you know if it will play nice with SONOFF devices?

[@KrassimirKossev]

Tuya bridges work with Tuya devices only.

[@jasonhill9088]

I really like the new Sarcasm guy! Thanks Luke!

[@fins5150]

Needs a new wig for sarcasm guy... Ginger red

[@biggusdickus5986]

Nope no ginger would be taken seriously, because they're ginger, as my kids found out before they discovered hair dye lol. Even being tokd it was because of their viking heritage didnt stop them becoming Brunettes 😂

[@johnieM19]

Have you ever done a video comparison of different smart gateways? With Matter out for a long time now it would be cool to see which one is the best bang for your buck.

[@paulhibbert]

Not for a while! I am reviewing another one soon so perhaps after that one 😁👍🏻

[@johnieM19]

@@paulhibbert I've the bell on regardless. You've a great channel for info and new stuff.

[@simonblurton8009]

That was the best sketch you've done.

[@mikepaine1628]

Govee has new pres sensor. Can you get your hands on it it please and review it.

[@nide85]

Can you please make a video comparing : Zemismart Matter Thread Hub Smart Control Tuya Zigbee Zemismart Zigbee Hub Smart Homekit Bridge Wired Gateway

[@DonovanCYoung]

For what it's worth, I think your schtick is very entertaining. Keep on doing you.

[@kaneserver]

This is is just perfectly just exactly what I need! Perfectly and exactly. Perfectly exactly.... So are those switches with no neutral... I think... Will be trying it in any case. Just may need to switch from the calex app to the tuya smart life app.

[@DavidFrankland]

Aren't they the same app anyway? I bought a Calex bulb (from Tesco) the other day, launched the Smart Life app and it was automatically discovered (by bluetooth, I believe). I've never used the Calex app.

[@thanoswasright626]

Random question will Sonoff device work?

[@paulhibbert]

Only if they’re matter enabled devices

[@thanoswasright626]

@@paulhibbert Thank you Homie

[@tzetv]

I have the M1 working with HomeKit however it keeps removing sub-devices. Any advice anyone?

[@DGSRizzo]

Does this work with eufy homebase 3?

[@Mr_Gadge]

Hey! What's that humidity sensor please oh shiny headed one! No link to it tut tut.. Lots of love, Billy the shiny headed one.

[@markshaz8691]

Happy Saturday Paul, not sure why if people complain about you that they still watch 🤦‍♂️. Definitely more Bane please.

[@paulhibbert]

Thanks dude. People are weird. 🤷‍♂️

[@tharais]

Human nature. We're naturally a bunch of complainers. It's what drives us! Paul's humor on the other hand, is the antidote.

[@iGageit]

My tuya devices are all wifi, is there a good hub for local control with wifi? :)

[@soundman127]

I'm waiting for the LinknLink iSG - that ought to be just what you need too. I hope this M1 (which I'm using atm) will help me get any problematic Tuya Zigbee devices to connect with the iSG (when it arrives...)

[@soundman127]

Wait for the Linknlink iSG

[@kit2nv]

In theory, is this that the Aqara M3 hub should be capable of ?

[@MrNasweeney]

Your shtick had my dog look and wait 🐕 Funny😅 Keep up the great work Paul! You are Awesome

[@farissuliman]

Does it work with smarthings

[@davidqueen7133]

Always look forward to my Saturday laughs Paul - you do make my chuckle! Keep it up sir :)

[@paulhibbert]

Thanks man, I needed that this morning 😊

[@DouglasBryant-d2f]

You are witty and entertaining, keep it up

[@paulhibbert]

Thank you my friend! Made my day ❤️

[@DanBlomberg]

I have randomly been telling my kids "not enough yachts" and they don't get it... the only joke missing from this video. I'm entertained :-D

[@paulhibbert]

This makes me happy 🤣

[@aidanbazan7769]

I’m not totally sure the advantage of this over home assistant?

[@danielfabriciofreita]

Works bluetooth?

[@timothymason5545]

I am looking forward to seeing what the new Aqara hub can do. Hope that will be the hub everyone needs.

[@leona_devon]

Great video Paul, good to see some matter content, it's not for me, as you know I hate hubs, but it's a step forward. Oh you you get the annoying tuya thing home assistant where it just randomly stops working, thought I had put everything on local ruys, looks like I forgot a device lol, one everything will "just work" a? 😂

[@RiceEater483]

I think this hub is also suppose to be a Thread Border Router. Have you tried any Thread devices so far?

But does it work with ikea?

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

“One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them”? Not quite yet it seems… Shane, I’d quite like to dump some of the multiple hubs I have.

[@DigitalImagesOfWirral]

Morning Sir, happy Saturday!

[@paulhibbert]

Happy Saturday dude!!

[@parawizard]

For a second I thought the title was: All Smart Home Devices in One Hubby... Would have been too saucy for KZbin!

[@MohammedNatheer]

Did you try it with smartthing ?!

[@MathieuDeVinois]

I actually don’t really go into the smart home things as it seems they just want to sell you their hubs, bridges and cloud services. And hubs claiming they connect everything. lol. They won’t. I think HA is the only platform dealing with most products. Tried to install it. But can’t connect it to my router atm. So no possibility to play with it.

[@lovellneil]

Morning you very, very funny clever man, but you already knew that ! So Paul aqura motion sensor, I would like a few things to happen when I go into my room. Wi fi lighting on, switch av amp and switch lg tele on. Is there an easy way of doing this that doesn’t use HOME ASSISTANT :-)

[@nate_river_]

45% of the way in before we hit the title card. Is that a new record? 😉

[@paulhibbert]

I know right! I decided during editing that it needed the old Luke footage and then I was like ooooohhhh, the pushes the title card way backwards 🤣

[@danwooller6101]

Can Luke present from now on, I bet he knows Home Assistant.

[@paulhibbert]

Luke has spent too long in his basement not to be good with home assistant!

[@josephmannphotography]

Trust me Paul, I live about 40 miles from Silicon Valley, your missing nothing but self absorbed pain in the ass people in an over crowded location. Come to Lodi, you will enjoy it much more.

[@sergiop74]

So Basically, if i got the point, for a Home Assistant user this device could replaces a ConBee or Sonoff stick as Coordinator and enables to use Matter and Zigbee devices at the same time right? PS: Don't care about those Grumpy's

[@KrassimirKossev]

This device is not a Zigbee coordinator that can replace a Conbee or Sonoff stick in HA. Zemismart M1 is a Tuya Zigbee hub with a minimal number of device types that are exposed via Matter Bridge functionality to other Matter controllers. And it has not received a firmware update for several months now.

[@kpbearfl]

This is getting out of control, isn't matter supposed to work on ALL the already existing matter-enabled hubs/systems? I'm trying to get rid of all my hubs, not to add a new one.