It's not a real easy question to answer, so I just wanted to put together a quick
little video. Which hubs can you use with your single element bulbs? And really
this goes for most Sengled Bulbs in general. Now we all know that they have
their Sengled Hub, but here's a chart from their website. This contains the three
different bulb types that they have in the Element range of products. So the Element
Classic, the Element Plus, and the Element Touch. Those are the three different
bulbs that they have in this series. They have different options, different
capabilities, but that's not the point in this video. So that's not what we're
going through here. The supported hubs, as stated by their website for the Element
Classic, we're talking about the same Element Hub, Samsung SmartThings, Wink 1, and Wink 2.
And they do state that they have Amazon Alexa compatibility. They
also state that they cannot connect with Wemo, Phillips Hue, or some other kind of
TV related Smart Home Hubs like the Xfinity Home and the Cox Homelife. Now moving
over to Element Plus: Sengled Element Hub, SmartThings, Wink 1, and Wink 2.
What it does say with Wink 1 and 2 is that they don't support the color
temperature tuning. Now again Amazon Alexa capability is a yes, and the same
unsupported hubs for the Element Plus. Now on the Element Touch, you get access
to Xfinity Home and Cox Homelife. You also get access to Alexa and you just
have Wemo and the Philips Hue hubs that are not capable. Now you might be asking
why? Why is it that all of these different hubs are capable of connecting
with Sengled Element Bulbs? The fact is that the communication protocol is ZigBee.
That's an important distinction, and now i'm going to get into some details.
I'm going to show you some of the ways that you can connect to different hubs if you
have those. Now starting with Philips Hue because this was interesting to me
because Phillips Hue is a ZigBee Hub, but when you go to search for the lights, no
matter what you do, they are not found by the Philips Hue application. So there's
something very specific going on between Philips Hue Bulbs and their hub that is
over and above ZigBee. Now, remember we talked about Amazon Alexa compatibility.
What I'll tell you is that in my home, I have a second generation of the Echo
Plus device, which has a Zigbee Hub on board, and that makes it incredibly
easy to connect to. You don't need another hub at all and that's again due
to the capability of having Zigbee being on board. Now if you've been following the
channel, you've seen that the first hub I connected the Element Bulbs to was the
Samsung SmartThings Hub, but then from there you can use that to connect to all your
different Amazon Alexa-enabled devices, and your Google Home. You can of course
go and buy a Sengled Element Hub or one of the Wink 1 and Wink 2 hubs, if those are
what you'd rather have. For myself, I like the capability of having the SmartThings
Hub connected, and automating a number of things in my home. This includes my Sengled
Element Bulbs. So there you go. That's a good breakdown of all the different hubs
that you can connect these bulbs to. I think that it's something that people
don't have great visibility on, so that's why I wanted to make this video. if
there is anything that's unclear, go ahead and leave a question in the comments below. I will of
course get to that.
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