What is a smart home hub?
So to begin any foray into the world of smart homes we first need to understand how we want the brains of the network to work. In the smart home context this is basically someplace which consolidates the inputs and outputs all your smart devices like light bulbs, sensors, etc and controls them based on a set of behaviours, schedules or triggers. For example you might want your smart home to turn on the lights and air conditioner when you get home, and this is where the brains of the system will detect when you enter the door and switch on those devices. There are basically two main options to choose from: Get a smart home hub, this can be a Samsung SmartThings hub which runs on Z-wave, a Wink Hub, Fibaro Home Center, and so on, and have that act as the central hub for all your devices to connect to and to have the hub Or Use services such as IFTTT and Stringfy to "code" the behaviors you want. Getting a hub would be the easiest method of getting this done as most hubs...