I knew a hubs tile was coming because it appeared in the summary tile configuration file a while ago. As it only checks the online status of the hubs I suspected there would be more to the story.
It will be used to access a hub management tool that isn’t available until July. I know that because I managed to find a device that has had the app update and there is a notice about it.
As an aside it also flags the incredibly ugly but arguably more practical room selection dooberry and introduces sharing of Routines.
Yep, ICON is gone even though Hubs is selected in the Show Home Status, but I see a menu option on the Favorites page menu for ‘Manage Hubs’ which downloaded and came up.
I guess Matter provided the impetus for hub groups but I was rather hoping groups of V2 hubs would come for free. I just like the idea of being able to use a spare V2 as a high capacity Zigbee repeater. There are occasions when I prefer to turn off significant numbers of mains powered devices and in my property the range of Zigbee is already pretty low.
Of course if they are holding back because they want to repurpose them as Matter bridges that’s fine. I suspect it is also unlikely.
I have V3 hub at firmware ver 053.00019. I have a hub tile on my device list and now I have noticed on the Favorties page, clicking hamburger, brings up an option at the bottom “Manage Hubs”. Selecting this I get the message “To use this feature, you need to download Manage Hubs (size 5.58MB)”. Buttons to cancel or download. Anyone know what functions this provides?
There should be an app update notice in Menu > Notices where this is described. It is basically a tool to manage Hub Groups and there is also a link to replace hubs in its options menu.
You’ll see the hub details page for each hub you have has also been splatted with stuff about hub groups.