YoLinkHub, 1/4 Mile Super Long Range Smart Hub LoRa Enabled Smart Home Automation Bridge Home Security Monitoring System - Central Controller for YoLink Smart Home Devices - White

YoLink has many home monitoring systems including water links, video and thermostats. I use only the water leak detection system. The system uses an app to program and control leak detectors that automatically detect and send notifications to email and mobile phone. I also installed an online inline automated water valve to turn off the water if a leak is detected. I have placed a detector near the washing machine, the refrigerator and dishwasher, and the water heater. Basically, anywhere there could be water leaks, there is a small detector. The detectors also have great range. I even put one near the intake from the well to monitor for frozen pipes.The system works extremely well. It will also connect to the internet to allow for online control anywhere there is internet. However, internet is NOT needed for the system to detect and turn off the water. But is needed for online control and notification. Not sure if you can set up for a phone call notification.The valve cutoffs are very good quality and work flawlessly. I have the model that allows you to simply fit it to the existing cutoff valve. This setup allows for a simple install usually without a plumber. There is also an improved inline cutoff valve that sadly was not available when I installed my system. This newer improved model completely replaced the existing cutoff valve. Or you could install the new inline valve in addition to the existing valve. Mine is in the pump house but it can easily be installed in the water cutoff box coming from the street.The system worked well for multiple years until I began having “detector offline” notifications. YoLink support worked immediately with me to diagnose and solve the issue. They even added an additional hub at their expense.All in, a very well designed and constructed system with excellent customer support. The app is also top quality. I would definitely recommend YoLink for instant peace of mind that your home will not be flooded while at work or traveling.

Using this hub with a door sensor to monitor my mail box. Had tried several other sensors and they always had issue reliably detecting the opening/closing. Probably partially due to the signal needing to go through my metal garage door on it's way back.This has been 100% since I installed it and the batteries seem to last forever.

Overall, the hub has been great. Setup was super easy - added to network, and linked 2 temperature sensors for freezers. The sensors are about 40 feet away from the hub and connection is fairly stable. We've had a couple of drops of the connection of the sensor, but a quick button push gets them back online, and I am notified when they disconnect.

I got this device because the older version did not have direct (cable) internet capability. The inability of these devices to connect to Wi-Fi systems faster than 2.4 GHz is a real problem. Fortunately, if you connect to your router using a cable, you can connect to routers faster than 2.4 GHz. The other issue is the app. The app is weak, and it may take several tries (delete & add device) to get it and any sensors to work. The third issue I have is that the basic model no longer has a siren. So, you need to buy a different hub to get the siren or you need to buy a separate siren like I did.If you can overlook these issues, then you will be happy. I use mine to protect my car at night, and it allowed me to catch 3 young men breaking into my car two weeks after I got the unit. The siren went off, and I scared them off, gun in hand. Since then, there have been no more attempted break-ins.

great

Bought one for my refrigerator to monitor in case of power outage or compressor failure. Liked so well I bought a second unit for my garage freezer the next day.

This hub works exactly the way I wantedI recommend it this hub.Buy this in a bundle with other yolink sensors and save.-----------------------------------Oh... here are a few details about Yolink sensors and hub you really do need to know.All yolink sensors of any type communicate with the hub and the hub communicates with the yolink server and the server communicates with your cell phone and the yolink app.You might think this is bad but I actually love it. Here is why.You link can send you a text or an email if a sensor is tripped. But if that text or email winds up on your phone how do you know it got there? Does your phone make some special beep when a yolink email comes in or a special sound when a yolink text comes in? As for the text I do know how to customize my text to make a special noise but I don't bother.Why don't I bother? Because I set the yolink app to "app only notification".Well ladies and gentlemen.... I found a notification reader app for my phone. It reads yolink notification out loud. Not text, not email but app notifications from the yolink app.It can be set to only read notification from any certain app you want and not from apps you don't want.Get this... it has a time delineation setting.... LOL your thinking WHAT? No it does not delineate time...It delineates THE time the app reads notifications out loud.Here is how I set it, I have it set so the app reader only reads yolink notifications at night. Not during the day time. My wife hates hearing it during the day and evening. During these times the notification make a small sound. I know to check the notification. My wife can't hear it.So get all that? Yolink could have an "in app reader" or "announcement" that could simply say out loud what sensor just got tripped. But yolink wants you to pay them for a text service that can send a lot of text to you.NO... you don't need that.Install the notification reader, it is called "voice notify" version 1.3.1, it is awesome.It truly completes the Yolink system and makes it what it truly should be. A way for your phone to tell you what door or window or yolink sensor just got tripped and it can happen while you are in your easy chair at home, or, in an airport on another continent on the other side of the planet.

great product for the price. Needed to add to existing hub