The Aqara G2H is an affordable HomeKit Secure Video camera with a HomeKit-compatible Zigbee hub, but is it right for you?
As the popularity of the smart home balloons, more and more companies want a piece of the pie and understandably so. In HomeKit, we’ve been witnessing a surge in vendors bring their products to the platform with many offering unique perspectives and accessories with a growing number coming out of China. One such manufacturer is Terncy, otherwise known as Xiaoyan. This Zigbee-based home automation solution provides some affordable smart home standards as well as some one-of-a-kind devices that really make this system stand out. This article will serve as an introduction to the HomeKit-enabled Terncy Home Center and its lineup of accessories with more in-depth analyses of some individual devices to come.
HomeKit has had solutions for water leak sensors for some time and we even reviewed the first to come to the platform last year, but one of it’s downsides was the price. Aqara is seemingly aiming to significantly undercut its competition by offering a comparable product at nearly 1/3 of the price, but is it worth it?
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In the world of home automation, there is a highly contentious debate, aside from platform, that keeps comment sections, threads, and feeds in business and that is: to hub or not to hub. One of these devices that has been steadily growing in popularity culminating most recently with its launch on Amazon in the U.S. is the Aqara Hub. In this post, we’ll look at some of it’s features, the good, the bad, and try to demystify this HomeKit accessory and see what all the hub-bub is about.
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