This is a review for the new Hubitat C8 Smart Home Hub, which has the potential for a mile and a half of Z-wave range, support for Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Homekit and IFTTT and has the longest range of any Zigbee device I've tried. It's time to put Home Assistant in a bin... or is it?

This video is sponsored by Hubitat, all opinions are my own.

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Probably the best smart home gadget I own, and the Hubitat C8 has Wifi, so no more tying it to your Ethernet!

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
2:01 - Hubitat C8 Spec & Overview
3:20 - Hubitat C8 Zwave range test
3:58 - Hubitat C8 Zigbee range test
5:20 - Hubitat C8 compatibility
7:06 - Hubitat C8 Community drivers
8:40 - Hubitat C8 Automations
9:28 - Hubitat versus Home Assistant
11:31 - Summary

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