Review on 🔌 SmartThings Assistant: ZigBee Outlet by Shane Minter

When looking for smart home devices, security should be your first step. This plugin requires you to have a hub to manage them, but that means you can control the device's connection and security. The Zigbee devices (protocol or signal) I've used have always been reliable for me in my smart home for the past 5+ years. It took about 30 seconds to connect the devices to my Hubitat hub and the connection worked and synced to my Google home devices which were voice control ready. In less than five minutes, all of my Christmas lights were connected to my smart home and added to my lighting schedules for automation. ** to monitor your home network or even use it as a point of attack and overload your network with devices. .