YoLink SpeakerHub & Two Motion Sensor Smart Home and Security Kit – Audio Hub Plays Tones/Sounds, Spoken Messages, LoRa-Powered ¼ Mile Range, WiFi Required

Love the Yolink products and do recommend them to everyone. The exception to this... the speakerhub. It does not integrate (as of this writing) to my home assistance so I regret buying it. I am happy I found that out and hope they add integration soon but if I had to give advice, definitely buy Yolink devices but wait for the speakerhub to be supported with HA and other setups.

Very easy to install and I finally have a good reliable security sensor for my shop. The range of Yolink’s system is as advertised, first in class I would say. I’m sure some might be put off by needing a secondary devise called a hub but it can control 100’s of sensors apparently. This is a great system in my opinion.

Ordered the voice hub, two motion sensors, and a door sensor. The voice hub works great, it's actually nice that since it's next to my google mini the voice can actually use the google mini. This is nice since the integration with google home isn't really there, motion sensors don't show up in google home so you can't set routines except through the Yolink app which sucks if you need to control outside devices. The voice hub was a nice work around to get this to work with motion sensors.I do have an issue with the range of these devices too. The motion sensor in my house and the door sensor I put on my garage can connect, but the motion sensor in my mailbox not even 300 feet way from the hub, probably less than that even keeps going offline overnight. I can get it to stay connected and update motion detection if it's placed just right, but without fail it will go offline within 24hrs. I do understand a mailbox can have a faraday effect, but LoRa is supposed to have good penetration and the mailbox isn't as far away as I've seen other users have their mailboxes.I tried contacting YoLink about this issue since the range is so small and can't even penetrate a thin piece of metal (very cheap mailbox). Their comment was it should work in my mailbox but the issue is I bought the voice hub and not their regular hub? Their recommendation is buying another hub because the old hub has "better range" despite not mentioning any range differences between devices and both being labeled for 1/4th mile range. The only difference with the voice and regular model should have been no ethernet connection and voice on the new hub. You shouldn't have to have two hubs to get the advertised range of these devices.I like these devices for their easy installation with the great magnetic back, but clearly the item descriptions don't match up with real world use and even their support team that says the device should work but only with the original hub or if you if you have the voice hub you need to have both hubs.

This product does NOT provide app push notifications. Don’t be fooled like I was. Text message notifications is limited to 20/mo. Yolink will not tell you this upfront.-No push notifications-Limited text messages-no integration with Smartthings-Alarm cannot be individualized for different sensorsOnly positive is the range…

This was supposed to be simple to setup. However, it requires a wi-fi cloud connection, a credit card to verify who you are, a cell phone, a limit of 250 alarms per month, and I still don't know where / or in whose cloud service it is located. Not to mention it didn't like my email address or other information. Too many details required when I just want a doorbell to hear if someone has turned down my driveway. For somebody else that is into the latest and greatest tech gizmos this may be the right solution, it wasn't the right solution for me.