The centre of your HomeSmart.sg smart home system. Your other HomeSmart.sg Aqara smart devices connect to the smart hub using Zigbee wireless technology, so you'll need at least one. All HomeSmart.sg Aqara smart devices must be in wireless range of your hub to function. If your house is large, or if you plan to have devices far from each other, you may need more than one hub.
Chances are, you'll have selected one or more hubs - such as cameras or air-con controllers - from the previous options. Those will act as hubs, so you can skip this step. However, if you haven't, or if you think you may need more hubs based on your home size, here's a chance to add more hubs in. General rule of thumb - one hub per 600 sqft. We recommend trying less hubs first, and simply adding more later (after setup) if there are devices with poor connection strengths.
We'd recommend not considering Matter or Thread (other standards) in your decisions as they tend to confuse, rather than simplify selections. Generally, you'll only pick a Matter compatible product if you already know what Matter is; otherwise, it probably wouldn't matter to you.
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