Reviews Samsung Connect Home, Router Smart Home Hub Combo |
Posted: December 6, 2017 |
Because components of the smart home system are distributed throughout the home and controlled by a hub connected to the Internet through a router, system control is possible wherever broadband access is possible. So it makes sense that Samsung decided to mix the smart home hub with a mesh Wi-Fi router. However, mixing is always tricky. The result is a delicious one, like the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, but with disappointing results like the 1962 amphibious car, where performance did not work. Connect Home is not a bad product, but it is closer to the latter than the former. Samsung has never been a big hand in the Wi-Fi router market. The company also entered the smart home market after the acquisition of Smart Things in 2014. Because of its strength and relative openness, Smart Thing Hub is the best DIY smart home system currently ranked by PCWorld. You can build as simple or complex systems as you want with one or more apps that can easily control third-party products just as much as smarts branded hardware. But Samsung wants more users to use the Connect Home Series more easily. There are two versions of the Connect Home and are available in three SKUs. Both are dual-band 802.11ac mesh Wi-Fi routers that integrate with a smarts hub and Z-Wave, ZigBee, and Bluetooth wireless devices in the same enclosure. In this regard, Samsung is ahead of Securifi Almond 3, the only other router / smart home hub I have tested. SecureFiAlmond 3 requires a $ 30 dongle because Wave is compatible. During installation, one of the nodes in the Connect Home 3-Pack consists of a 2x2 MU-MIMO router. This means that two spatial streams are used for both source and destination. Thanks to MU-MIMO support, it is possible to send and receive data simultaneously to multiple clients.
Samsung classifies a 3-pack of routers into an AC1300 model that provides up to 866Mbps in the 5GHz band and 400Mbps in the 2.4GHz band. The other two devices in a three-pack operate as network nodes to cover up to 4,500 square feet of house.
Samsung also sent Connect Home Pro. It is a 4x4 MIMO router that uses four spatial streams each to transmit and receive simultaneously. Samsung classifies ConnectPro Home as an AC2600 router that provides up to 1,733Mbps in the 5GHz band and 800Mbps in the 2.4GHz band. The Connect Home Pro packaging box is labeled as a MIMO router, not an MU-MIMO router, which seems to be wrong. According to a Samsung representative, both routers support MU-MIMO. Samsung says the pro model is unsuitable for homes up to 1,500 square feet, but it can be used with five connected or connected home pro devices operating as satellite nodes to increase the effective area.
Both models have two Ethernet ports. If you have an infrastructure at home, you can use one of the two as a wired backhaul. Smart home functionality is basically the same for all three SKUs. However, the pro is equipped with a faster CPU. Smart Home Performance The SmartSync platform has strengths in third party hardware. Kwikset, Schlage, Yale Smart Rock; GE, Leviton, Lutron, dimmers, switches, smart outlets from Remotec; You can use smart bulbs from Cree, Philips, LIFX, Sengled and Sylvania. Direct support for security cameras and smart thermostats is somewhat weak. (The security camera can be selected from Netgear's Arlo line and Ring's video beacons.) Smart thermostats have no choice but Ecobee and Honeywell. (Nest) is not supported.) However, unlike Almond 3, SmartSense does not directly support any smoke detectors. It seems that Samsung is not going to change the way it supports third-party hardware on the Smart Sense platform. However, the Samsung Connect app, which Samsung recommends to the Connect home buyer, is an oversimplified version of the original SmartSense app. It is more basic than the rules of the engine and it is not allowed to create more complicated automation routines by adding other apps. There is no way to stop controlling a Connect Home or Connect Home Pro with a SmartSense app, but Samsung does not seem to be willing to use SmartSense apps. Samsung inquiries Samsung's position on using the SmartSense app instead of the Samsung Connect app to control Samsung Connect's home. As a result, Samsung Scope Home can use any app, instead of multiple apps. It is designed to control and manage devices. " "Does Samsung recommend that Connect Home users use the Samsung Connect app instead of the SmartSense app?" Connect Home is designed to simplify the user experience and focus everything into one application. The application is the Connect app. "
The problem is that the Samsung Connect app is as powerful as the SmartSense app, but the problem is not. Samsung has sent some smart home compatible smart home devices, such as versatile sensors and plug-in smart outlets, with their routers, and even the limitations were soon discovered. I set up a multipurpose sensor at the door, plugged the lamp into a smart outlet, and made a routine that lights up when the door opens between 4 pm and 6 am on weekdays.
It is a very good routine. This is because when you return home after seeing the chest in the middle of the night, you do not have to worry about how to carry your shopping cart in your hands and go into the house without fire. We could set various conditions through Samsung Connect app. If it is dark, if it is a specific day of the week, if the door is open ... . And when all of those conditions are met (the conditions can come up with as much as possible), the lights are turned on via the smart plug. However, since Samsung Connect only allows one action per rule, the light will remain on unless you turn it off. It is much better to allow subsequent actions such as "Turn off the smart plug after 10 minutes". SmartShing is also compatible with Google Home and Amazon's Echo voice secretary, so you can turn off your lights using voice commands after you come home. But what is fun then? Mesh Router Performance Connect Home Pro has not done benchmarking yet, but Connect Home offers moderate performance on wireless TCP output. When tested with a Windows PC server and client, Connect Home has never been ranked 6th or higher among the 11 mesh routers tested so far (testing is done as a client in four places in the house). Compared to the only other router / smart home hub I've looked at, Secure Home 3, the Connect Home is located in a home theater (10 meters away from the router) and a home theater (10.5 meters away from the router but with more intervening objects) The speed was slightly faster. Almond 3 was faster at near distance and the client was three times faster (20 meters) farthest from the router. I have seen similar results when testing routers on Mac (Mac) servers and clients. In this scenario, Connect Home also did not get sexually more than 6th place, faster than almond 3 in 2 places, and almond 3 was faster in 2 places. However, the performance gap between these two products was much less. On any client / server platform, Samsung's routers did not surpass the performance of the Netgear Orbi RBK50, Linksys Velop, or the second-generation Eero Wi-Fi system. The ultimate smart home system is not enough It is clear that Samsung wants to be in the mainstream of smart homes, and to make it easier and simpler to make the Smart thing platform. But being simpler and easier means more power. Connect Home is not the best smart home system on the market or the best mesh router. But for now, it's the best smart home / mesh router combo available, and that's enough. If you want the smartest home and mesh router to be the most powerful, you have to buy a smart home hub that is separate from the router. The router may not be a mesh model.
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