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Spend $200 or More on Samsung SmartThings Products & Get 25% off with Free Shipping
Spend $200 or More on Samsung SmartThings Products & Get 25% off with Free Shipping @ Capital Smarthomes
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Or go to JB and not have to spend $200
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/?q=smartthings&hPP=36&idx=shopify_…In JB result there are 2 x SmartThings: Samsung SmartThings Wi-Fi Hub and Samsung SmartThings V3 Hub
Does anyone know the difference? Looks similar and tried to compare in google and found no result.
The difference is the Wifi hub also functions as a mesh router, that's why it costs more. Other than that it's the same hub.
The naming of these products is confusing. The v3 hub is also wifi, just not mesh wifi. Unless you need mesh wi-fi, the v3 hub is the one to get.
Mesh wi-fi devices improve the signal in your home to cover more areas, and uses the same SSID. This is the "mesh" trick it pulls off. Older wifi extender devices create a new SSID for the blackspot area. Not necessarily a problem, but the new fancy way to fix black spots in the home is with a mesh wifi network.
If your smart sensors and devices are in range of the V3 hub, and working fine, then you don't need the "wifi hub".
To add, I recently looked at smartthings and wasn't impressed.
Tl;dr I wouldn't recommend it. When a Samsung account and full location access is required to switch on your own living room lights, while you're sitting in your living room, something is not right.
The app situation is not great, and Samsung bullies its way into obtaining your exact home address, otherwise you are not allowed to set up the hub. I would have been fine with suburb, but no it wants more. It forces you to give the app full background location access, or you can't set up the hub. "Once only"? Denied.
There's a vibe of discouragement from custom functions. Their new app offers less options than the old. So I'm out. Deleted my Samsung account and will sell hub.
I get the feeling Samsung acquired SmartThings for wrong reasons. They can't let go of dumpster diving our personal data, and driving eco-system lock-in. Internet of Things is best served open, due to the amount of devices that can be linked, and privacy concerns. And while Webcore can be installed on smartthings, it's a messy hack job to get it working.
These tech giants like Samsung, Google and Apple all push for personal data to be collected. For example, how Samsung demands you enable location access before you can set up smartthings. iOS allows this to happen. These hubs primarily do things like "discover your Hue lamps", and other non-GPS scenarios.
@cerealJay: Check out hubitat, I've combined samsung smartthings motion sensor with it, thus only local access
@BigLeviathan: Yep.. I already ordered a Hubitat shortly after pulling plug on SmartThings.
Good to know the smartthings sensors work with it.
@cerealJay: Yup, but it'll be recognise as generic sensor due to zigbee and not zwave (not that it'll change its functionality in any way), I can still access the motion detection as well as the local temperature measure.
Smartthings?
Do the toilet seats massage me v%$#@ like the xiaomi one does?
No, this is Smartthings. You're looking for Smallthings…
Erm the racv shop is cheaper…
In fact over boxing day, they had 30pc off their starter kit. This included: 3 motion sensor, 2 multipurpose sensor and wifi hub. 174 plus 15 delivery = 189