Automating tasks is one of the benefits of having a smart home hub. Wink HUB 2 is a great choice for your smart home needs. Wink uses robots as a way to link your devices together and have them accomplish tasks. There are also schedules that allow you to control your devices based on time.
You can even time lights with sunset and sunrise. If you have read the review on the first generation Wink HUB you noticed that was one of my favorite things. Come fall in Oregon its dark by 3:30 in late November and early December. I do enjoy that my lights come on with sunset and off with sunrise.
Robots – Wink automation
As Wink has expanded the compatibility of their smart HUB, I have been able to change up my routine as well. Wink has recently added support for Netgear Arlo devices. They are wireless cameras that you can mount all over. Like many cameras they can sense motion. The cameras alone bring me the ability to get a notification that they saw motion and then I can view the clip of Video that they recorded.
Once I connect them to the Wink HUB 2 a whole different level of interaction is at my finger tips. I easily created a robot in the Wink app that allows me to control my front porch light with my Arlo camera. Now when motion is detected, my Wink HUB 2 will turn on the front porch light.
The Wink app even gives me the ability to enable this robot to run from sunset to sunrise. Turning the porch light on doesn’t do anything spectacular during the day. This is just one of the many robots I have working in my house. Take a look at the screen shots below and see just how easy it is to create.
