SwitchBot Hub 2 (2nd Gen), work as a WiFi Thermometer Hygrometer, IR Remote Control, Smart Remote and Light Sensor, Link SwitchBot to Wi-Fi (Support 2.4GHz), Compatible with Alexa&Google Assistant
$59.99
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Smart WiFi Thermometer Hygrometer: The SwitchBot Hub 2 features a built-in industrial Swiss-made chip (accuracy up to ±1.8% RH/±0.36°F) in its cable. Additionally, the panel comes equipped with a light sensor, which enables the screen brightness to adapt to the environment seamlessly. The WiFi functionality allows you to monitor your home’s temperature, humidity, and light data, as well as their variations, anytime, anywhere.
Helps Consolidate All Your Infrared Remotes: With Smart Learning, our smart home hub can help you add tons of home appliance infrared remotes to our app to help make home life simple. You’ll then be able to control appliances such as TVs, Air Cons, and more using Voice Commands (e.g. Alexa) or even using our app or your Apple Watch.
Use with Scenes and Geo-fencing: Temperature, humidity and light detected by SwitchBot Hub 2 (2nd Gen) can be used as automatic scene conditions as the trigger condition to control devices such as air conditioners to help maintain a comfortable environment at home. Use with other SwitchBot products to realize more automation scenarios with the help of our smart home ecosystem.
2 Smart Buttons Included: Our device comes with two buttons to allow you to set up household appliances or automation scenes to be controlled when using our app. Just simply tap lightly and enjoy a host of different home automation possibilities, especially suitable for the elderly or children who cannot use smart phones or voice commands.
Supports Matter: SwitchBot Lock, Curtains and Blind Tilts are supported via Matter when using SwitchBot Hub2 (2nd Gen), which in turn helps make your device supported via HomeKit (support across other devices will come shortly after). Our hub also allows you to use third-party smart assistants such as Alexa, Google Home, and Apple Home for an even better smart home experience.
8 reviews for SwitchBot Hub 2 (2nd Gen), work as a WiFi Thermometer Hygrometer, IR Remote Control, Smart Remote and Light Sensor, Link SwitchBot to Wi-Fi (Support 2.4GHz), Compatible with Alexa&Google Assistant
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Cyber Woodsmith –
Great solution for my needs.
I bought the hub with 4 sensors. Setup was pretty straight forward. Hub integrated easily onto my Wifi network and Alexa environment. I have one sensor in my pump house with an alarm when the temperature drops near freezing. A second is inside a freezer watching for temperatures above 10 degrees. This sensor does not update very often, I think the Bluetooth signal has a hard time getting out. However all I need to do is open it and I have the history of it’s performance. The third sensor is inside my small wood drying kiln I use for bowl blank. Here the humidity sensor is very useful. The 4th is inside my workshop so I know what issues I will face with glues and finishes. There are issues with the speed of the updates, probably caused by the distance from the hub, but the data is updated eventually. However the fact that each sensor records readings about every 2 seconds and stores those results helps remediate the slow updates. The data is there. Like I said it fulfills my needs. The app is well designed, robust, and provides a good set of tools to review this recorded data. All in all I would recommend this to anyone who doesn’t need instantaneous temperature reading and alarms.
Aguaman –
Works Great With HomeKit and Alexa!
There’s was a lot of buzz last year about the HomeKit compatible infrared blaster the Nature Remo Nano. It looks like a great product but unfortunately it is only for the Japanese market. The Switchbot Hub 2, however, beat it to the American market! And I have to say it’s great! The update to change the IR blaster over to Matter was seamless and easy. The blaster works like a charm too!If there is anything to nit-pick about, I’d say that the Switchbot’s phone app simply doesn’t have very many pre-programmed templates to control various devices. Not that they are necessary. The Switchbot’s ability to learn IR codes and button from current remote controls is fantastic and easy. As long as you have the remote, Switchbot can learn it! For all the devices I wanted to control, I ended up just creating my own templates using the “Others” category under “IR Appliances”. Works great!A note note Apple TV users. Although Switchbot support will tell you it’s impossible to control an Apple TV with Switchbot, that’s just not true. It controls it fine. ALL Apple TVs can be controlled using IR signals from IR remote controls. You don’t even have to mess with settings in the Apple TV. It just works out of the box. The hurdle to overcome, however, is to get a IR remote control for the Apple TV. Only a bluetooth remote comes with the Apple TV 4 and later, not an IR remote. Apple TVs gen 1-3 had IR remotes. You can still buy these older model remotes and Switchbot can learn them just fine, but the gen 4 and later Apple TVs added a new Home button which is not on the older remotes. The new Home button is how you put the Apple TV 4s and later to sleep. Luckily, there are many cheap ($10) 3rd party IR remote controls for the Apple TV 4 and later that have the new Home button. Just buy one of those, and you can use it to teach Switchbot how to control your Apple TV.Switchbot uses Siri Shortcuts to allow Siri to control an Apple TV. Would be nice if it had built in support for Siri, but using Siri Shortcuts works fine. Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant can also control the Apple TV with Switchbot. So best of both worlds!I highly recommend Switchbot if you want to use it with Apple’s HomeKit. It’s not like we have much of a choice in any case. As far as I could tell, Switchbot is currently the ONLY smart home IR blaster in the American market that is compatible with HomeKit. But at least you know it works, and works well! 🙂
Brucet –
Easy setup, great features
Installed Jan 6, 2024 – I bought this Switchbot Hub 2 primary as an IR blaster to control an electric fireplace and an older Samsung TV in my bedroom to use my iPhone as the remote. Short story – works well, good app. Bonus: There are 2 physical buttons on the front you can use to trigger devices/scenes.Longer story for enthusiasts:Based on reviews of competing products, I am happy I chose this one, easily worth the extra money. Using the native hub automation you can use the built in temp sensor and set a threshold and corresponding action.Ultimately I plan to do automation via HomeKit but assumed it would take some time before matter functionality worked. So for the short term, using Switchbot hub2 as the automation engine is simple and intuitive. Also the app works with Apple shortcuts on IOS. Widget sort of works, only scenes (switchbot scenes) show up so far, not devices. These are native switchbot devices/scenes, not to be confused with Apple home.Apple HomeKit and Matter- I have done no research on matter, I keep hearing it is coming. I don’t care to promote or consult on it, I’ll use it when it’s ready. That said, I am pretty impressed so far:Upon pairing with HomeKit (read the included directions, they are far better than average) the temp and humidity icons show up immediately in the IOS Home app. Matter seems to be working. It takes a very long time for IR devices to show up in the IOS Home app. Several hours. I have fairly old Apple TV series 4, this could be why it takes a while? Again, it’s worth reading the instructions. Far superior than typical instructions from other device manufacturers.I am pleasantly surprised by this device. I never heard of them before yesterday!
Ronny –
Gaat perfect
Ed – BC, Canada –
There are a great many reasons why you may want to have a SwitchBot hub, mine are simplistic, but I researched enough of what the device can and cannot do before buying it to use in my home automation.First, although I gave it 5 out of 5, it does lack something important making it really a 4/5. The device is only capable of controlling IR (infrared remote controlled) devices. It cannot use RF (radio frequency) remote signals at all. This means the majority of older ceiling fan and LED lighting fixtures are not going to be something you could connect to the hub and use your voice assistant to control, turning them on, off, changing speed or brightness, etc.On the other hand, it connects very easily to the SwitchBot indoor/outdoor temperature and humidity sensors, which is primarily why I bought the hub so as to know either by asking my voice assistant or looking at the SwitchBot App on my phone to see the current real time temperatures of where the sensors are located inside and outside of my home.By assigning different names to each sensor (based on its location) I could easily ask: “Alexa (or Hey Google as I tried it on both systems) what is the temperature of The Outside?” And it would give me a reply of the temperature.The hub also once set up with a SwitchBot account can keep your temperature and humidity readings in their cloud based storage if you wish to maintain some form of record over time as how the temperatures change.The hub itself shows you (when the display is on) the current temperature and humidity it is sensing. You can choose metric or imperial notation and I found that the range was excellent from where the hub is located in the center of the main floor to all of the sensors: upstairs, basement, deck and outside our front door. The furthest sensor is approximately 25 feet from the hub but every sensor sends their data in real time to the phone when the app comes up and I wish to see the readings. One thing you may wish to know is when attempting to upload the saved data from the sensors to your phone, they use bluetooth to send the signals to your phone, They do not appear to send them to the hub then to your phone and thus I found that if I was too from from a sensor, I could not download its data to see a graph of the values over time. Moving my phone closer (within 12-15 feet) solved this issue. Even though the hub was beside me within a few feet, it was the phone ‘talking’ directly with the sensor that was the issue.The hub is what you connect to your existing wifi network. Another example of seamless operation is that I have 3 wifi networks in my home, and after setting up the SwitchBot hub 2 on one, and linking it to my Alexa account, it was un-linked from Alexa, and reconfigured to another network then linked to a Google Home account in a minute. After assigning the sensors to the Google home rooms, it was as if it was always there, ask the same voice command “Hey Google what is the temperature of The Outside” and it answers immediately.This is an extremely versatile device and robust in its design and functionality. I would recommend it for the situation I had to anyone interested in using it for their own home automation system.Just remember that it does not support RF controlled devices, but SwitchBot has numerous devices that connect to it for use in your home and for home automation applications.
Sezai –
användbar och högkvalitativ
Stephan Blendinger –
Warum habe ich den SwitchBot Hub 2 gekauft?Ich habe den SwitchBot Hub 2 gekauft, um die Hygrometer über Matter in mein SmartHome zu integrieren. Dies funktionierte ausgezeichnet. Sowohl der Hub 2 als auch die Hygrometer lassen sich über die App manuell in die Apple Home App über Matter einbinden.Integration und KompatibilitätDie Integration war einfach und unkompliziert, was besonders angenehm war. Es gibt jedoch eine Einschränkung, die man beachten sollte: Die Anzahl der Geräte, die man über Matter in die Home App einbinden kann, ist begrenzt. Das bedeutet, dass obwohl das Thermometer und das Hygrometer physisch ein Gerät sind, sie jeweils als separates Gerät zählen. Wenn du also viele dieser Geräte für verschiedene Anwendungen, wie das Messen der Feuchtigkeit in mehreren Gläsern, verwenden möchtest, stößt du schnell an die Grenzen der möglichen Verbindungen.Integrierte IR-FernbedienungEin weiteres Highlight des SwitchBot Hub 2 ist die integrierte IR-Fernbedienung. Diese ermöglicht es, IR-Geräte wie Fernseher und Receiver über die App zu steuern. Es ist sogar möglich, Routinen zu erstellen, was diese Funktion noch praktischer macht. Die Nutzung der IR-Fernbedienung hat meinen Alltag wirklich erleichtert und ist eine feine Ergänzung zu meinem SmartHome.Zusätzliche Hygro- und Thermometer-FunktionDer Hub 2 verfügt zudem über ein eingebautes Hygrometer und Thermometer, was eine nette Zusatzfunktion ist. Diese zählen allerdings auch als separate Geräte, wenn sie mit Matter verbunden werden. Das sollte man bei der Planung und Einbindung seiner SmartHome-Geräte im Hinterkopf behalten.FazitDer SwitchBot Hub 2 ist ein vielseitiges und funktionales Gerät, das die Integration von Hygrometern in ein SmartHome-System ermöglicht. Die einfache Einbindung über Matter und die praktische IR-Fernbedienung machen ihn zu einer wertvollen Ergänzung für jedes SmartHome. Die begrenzte Anzahl an möglichen Gerätverbindungen ist der einzige Minuspunkt, den man bei der Nutzung beachten sollte. Ansonsten überzeugt der Hub 2 durch seine Vielseitigkeit und praktischen Funktionen.Im Übrigen kann man die Entwicklung von Temperatur und Luftfeuchtigkeit über nützliche Diagramme auswerten. Hier ist ein Highlight die Angabe des VPD-Wertes, der für viele seit dem 1.4.2024 eine nützliche Funktion darstellt. ;-)Ich hoffe du findest meine persönlichen Impressionen nützlich.
Chris –
This central hub is easy to use, very configurable and provides useful shortcuts to other switchbot devices. Its a nice size for desktop use and provides matter integration also, which makes it good value for money.