update 1/17/2017: Have had this device now for almost 3 months, a few weeks ago it started to recycle through it's update or error conditions... not sure which.... every few hours, light turns either yellow or red, sometimes steady on sometimes blinking and of course can not use any smart devices while in this state. After several hours if it hasn't returned to the blue light on (normal condition) I either have to unplug it or use the reset button. About 4 days ago I emailed Wink asking for help and or info... but still no response from them. I'm now downgrading this from 5 stars to zero.... well can't give zero, so 1 star. I would NOT recommend buying this. With the Wink's new hub this is an obsolete product and from the lack of response from Wink I truly believe they are just trying to dump old inventory and has no intentions to support this product. The only devices I have been using this for is about a dozen LED lights, when the hubs blue light is on it works good enough for what I wanted it for, just have to get used to the lag time between using Amazon's echo device voice command and the time it takes to actually turn the light on.
Would I buy this again? NO, not since having this problem and getting no response from Wink. I can understand something going bad but when you can't get help from the company that makes the device then the value of that device decreases to zero.
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I'm using it with an Amazon dot and has been working great. I have 12 smart dimmer LED cree bulbs and have set them up in several arrangements of groups. Some bulbs belong to several groups and turning lights on or off by group names or by bulb names has worked just fine with the amazon dot.
The description says works on WPA-PSK, open security, or WEP. I've connected this using WPA-2 AES encryption without any problems. Was quick and easy to do, the app walks you through connecting by wifi.
But this does require a Android or iOS device to run the Wink app on.... will NOT work with a PC.
Once the smart bulbs are initialized by the wink hub you rename the bulb (or device) to what ever you want to call it. I have 12 smart bulbs and after initializing they are by default called light bulb (or something like that) so only do one device or bulb at a time and immediately rename it to a unique name.... you can always rename it again later in the wink app. Then initialize the next device and so on.
Now all I do is tell my echo to turn on what ever group or bulb/device I want (an how bright I want it to be if I don't want full brightness). In the alexa/echo/dot app (from amazon) you use the names of the devices you assigned them while initializing them (you CAN'T rename them in the alexa app but you CAN rename them in the wink app and then tell the alexa app to find new devices. And if the old name still shows in the alexa app just tell the alexa app to forget the old (no longer valid) name.
The wink app does appear to have more things it can do, like robots and shortcuts.... but since I haven't tried them on the wink app on a smart phone I can't be sure if there isn't something the wink app can do that the alexa app can't. Someday I will have to compare the two apps.
So far all I have are light bulbs and control all these as individual devices as well as created groups in the alexa app to control several and even all of them at once. You can put any and as many devices as you want in a single group or in as many groups you want. Oh though I would imagine there is some limit to how many devices and groups there can be.
would I buy it again.... yes.
update: after playing around with the two apps I found that you can set up "short cuts" in the wink app and it will be seen as a "new" device by the alexa app (you will have to do a search for new device to get the alexa app to see it). What you can do is set up any device to a particular setting... such as on/off or a preset brightness. Simply put... I have 12 bulbs and want all off except for three of them which I want on at 10% brightness. I called that short cut "TV" (which is seen in the alexa app as a device) and created a group in the alexa app called "night time" that has the device "TV" in it and when I say to my amazon dot "turn night time on" it turns off all the other lights and set just those three on to 10% brightness. You can use the device name itself without creating a group, but I was playing around with it to see what I could do with it.
| Manufacturer | Quirky, Inc |
|---|---|
| Part Number | PWHUB-WH18 |
| Item Weight | 1.6 pounds |
| Product Dimensions | 8 x 3 x 8 inches |
| Item model number | PWHUB-WH18 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Size | One Size |
| Color | White |
| Style | Hub |
| Pattern | As manufactured |
| Thickness | 4 Inches |
| Voltage | 1 Volts |
| Item Package Quantity | 1 |
| Number Of Pieces | 4 |
| Number Of Holes | 1 |
| Mounting Type | Wall Mount |
| Switch Style | Dimmer Switch |
| Special Features | Wireless |
| Included Components | 1 |
| Batteries Included? | No |
| Batteries Required? | No |
