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Hubitat

Hubitat is a true smarthome hub designed to be the center of your automation. It connects to Z-wave and Zigbee, Alexa and Google Home, Lutron and LAN devices. What makes it different from most smarthome hubs is its emphasis on local control and incredibly advanced automations. It boasts a fairly large device integration list, and if you choose wisely, it should be able to control anything you add to your smarthome.

For example, with Hubitat, you could create a set of rules that would dim your lights from 100% to 30% over the period of a half-hour at sunset or 8 PM (whichever is later) and then bring the lights back up slowly at sunrise or 6 AM (whichever is later)—all without any cloud interaction. This will even work if your internet goes down. SmartThings and Wink can’t reach that level of complexity, especially while relying only on local control.

Links:

Hubitat Elevation Product Home Page
Hubitat Tutorials
List of Compatible Devices
VIDEO(2019): Review of Hubitat
VIDEO(2020): Integrating Z-Wave Devices
BLOG(2019): Objective Article Reviewing Hubitat
Z-Wave vs Zigbee
Zigbee Smoke Alarm Discussion
Hubitat Smoke Alarm Discussion (discusses EcoLink Firefighter device)