Meet Wink 2 (2016)

[JDRoberts]

@ZebraBlinds

Saw this today, it doesn’t have a review on the wink 2, but rather the original wink (unless the original wink is not the direct predecessor of the wink 2). The best smart home gadgets for 2023

That specific article has its own discussion thread:

SmartThings Wins

I saw this in Engadget. TLDR …we think that the Samsung SmartThings Hub is the best hub for most people who want to buy right now… Still, to date, we don’t believe that any one smart hub is an unqualified, home-run purchase that would satisfy most people—our baseline standard. https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/21/the-best-smart-hub/ I think they got this right, but the competition is a bit thin. They claimed to have evaluated 20 systems but only talk about ST and Wink in any detail. My favorite lines… SmartThings app is positively full of icons, buttons, submenus, and subsections. It’s slow and shiny. SmartThings…supports most of the major smart-home wireless protocols, including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, ZigBee and Z-Wave Confirmed by Engadget, bluetooth is here (or they have no id…