Wink Hub

Everything with Wink is going to be dependent on the cloud on some level. They claim to have some local support, but it doesn't seem to work in my experience. I initially had everything connected to a Wink hub, but have since moved everything to a Zwave USB stick. This was mainly due to speed. With Wink, I had motion sensors that would trigger lights and sometimes it'd be nearly instant, other times there could be an 8 second delay. As for Wifi devices with Wink support, you should check to see if there are native Home Assistant components for those devices. I imagine most of those are …

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Wink introducing subscription - Users have 1-week to subscribe or be cut off. Wink has just announced plans to move to a $5 per month paid subscription on May 13th 2020 (yes, just one week from now), and subscriptions are mandatory. Decline to pay to subscribe before then and you will lose access to devices already in the Wink app as well as all your automatons. This is the risk when using home automation platforms based on cloud services without some kind of core offline and local-access functionality. https://blog.wink.com/wink-blog/2020/5/6/introducing-wink-subscription …

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