Smart Home Hub

The Aeotec Smart Home Hub2 v4 is an excellent choice for Smartthings. It is much faster, more memory, and great functionality. It is backwards and forward compatible and designed, with the ONLY exception, it will NOT work with ZWave devices. Zigbee and Matter are the current technologies that are the main players today, and the devices I connected work right out of the box. Connectivity is great, easy to set up and easy to use.

Purchased this to replace our Samsung SmartThings Hub V2. I wanted a better solution for devices that use Matter since the V2 doesn't really provide the correct solution for this. The Aeotec Hub 2 (v4) does not support Z-Wave but in our home that is ok since none of our devices use Z-Wave anymore. Installation was incredibly easy. You just plug it in and in your SmartThings app just choose replace hub and it does it all for you in just a matter of minutes! First time I tried to replace it, I was impatient and didn't let the hub do all of its updates or something and the next day it dropped over half of our devices. The solution was to either manually reset each device or to transfer back to the old hub - so we moved it all back to the old hub and waited several hours for the Aeotec to do all of its updates first before transferring. Second time with patience was a charm. The Aeotec Hub2 is considerably faster than the older hub!

It commonly drops off. It has trouble keeping up with complex routines. It handles motion lighting well enough though

I have to change my review this product turned out to be pretty lousy it's got an RJ Jack in the back and it won't stay connected to the RJ cable and it keeps falling off the network and I can't get any help from these people so I would recommend not buying along the older smart thing stopping it was great I don't know what AOTech did but it wasn't good

The Alexa Show 15 (was using it as my thread border router) kept struggling to control my matter over ethernet blinds and matter over thread curtains, claiming they were busy. I snagged this, paired all the blinds and curtains with it, and had it share with Alexa. Now everything is solid. Plus The SmartThings app gives me a nice UI for controlling everything.

Really happy with purchase. I bought a Samsung branded hub years ago and its been rock solid. Recently needed another hub for different home. Seems they no longer sell Samsung branded one. This one is same exact hub. Sets up just as my other one did. Devices’ all connected easy and smooth. If you’re a fan of the Samsung smart things eco system, this is perfect

My Samsung Smartthings Station started disconnecting on a frequent basis and I ordered the Hub2-V4 as a replacement. Didn't need z-wave and this unit is 4 years newer than Aeotecs other hub w/zwave. Figured the ethernet connection on this hub would prove more robust and time will tell. What I can tell today is the hub replacement routine was absolutely flawless and after connecting the new hub, upgrading the firmware , I was able to use the android Smartthings app to move all 63 of my zigbee and matter devices plus the routines to this new hub. Response to commands and routines seems 2 times faster. Hub was compatible with Thirdreality, Hue bulbs, Aquara Matter bridge and generic zigbee 3 devices in my system.

Switch from v2 to this for the matter option. Disappointed because how does a newer product have less memory for devices. V2 has more room. Will probably have to use both hubs

Primero, no tiene z-wave pero al no tener dispositivos de ese tipo no me afecta, la integración con smartthings es una pasada, deja ejecutar rutinas automaticas aun sin internet ya que se guardan en el dispositivo.