@Tyler What is the deal with the bluetooth? Why include it, just came with the wifi chip? Or are there plans now for it?
Iâll stick with my asus router. St is part of my home system and not the only focus. Sounding too apple-ish to meâŚ
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I could not find SmartThings branding on any of the pictures. Also, it comes with its own, completely separate mobile app that was not developed by SmartThings, which of course begs the question: why?
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another great selling product is having homes talk to each other if invited. for example a water leak in my neighbors home while on vacation and my light turns on. ya i could get a text but even cooler if can do that
Probably they are copying Xiaomi by having one app for everything. It will be a lost for us ST users going this route due to the slower app update.
Ok. My understanding is itâs a mesh wifi router with SmartThings hub built in.
Itâs not a new hub per say
We donât know if it has battery back up
We donât know if it has more memory - thinking CoRE pistons!
We donât know if the mesh extends the zigbee / zwave signals
Just as an aside. Donât all the higher end Samsung TVs have SmartThings built in too now?
Either way a big miss that ST donât have a prepared statement about this.
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I guess nobody bothered to let them know itâs being announced. 
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They will have 2 flavors⌠note the processor and Wi-Fi
Availability
Apart from the 2x2 version of the Connect Home, Samsung will also have a Pro version thatâs only available in a single unit for those living in a small home. The Connect Home Pro has the same physical size as a Connect Home unit but supports the top-tier Wi-Fi specs (4x4 MU-MIMO 802.11ac). Itâs slated to be much faster though and has the same Wi-Fi coverage as a single unit of the Connect Home.
As of now, Samsung is tight-lipped about the availability and pricing of its new mesh systems. But itâs likely that they will be available by the second half of 2017.
This seems to be billed as the Samsung Connect Home, belittling it with Google clone with a SmartThings twist (as CNET sees it).
Ok, iâm confused as hell. I have V1 ST hub going on my 4th year, and i got the v2 hub during 1st release but never installed it because of the migration issues, and the stability. I was JUST about to upgrade to v2 hub because of some Zwave plus devices, should i wait, is this replacing, upgrading v2 hub etc?
Damn so confusingâŚ
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Migration questions aside, this has my interest. I currently use an Apple Extreme ac which covers my 4200 sq ft home just fine but Apple have stated they are leaving the router market so Iâm concerned about when it starts to go south what to replace it with.
Depending on the answers to the questions posted in here this may be good.
Very interesting given the current instructions to keep your ST hub away from your router.
Those specs above are weird though. Why a lesser-powered device/slower speeds for the mesh version. I love the âblutoothâ lol.
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I would like to know how long my SmartThings hubs will be good as well as if they will ever get the âpromisedâ Bluetooth capabilities. This is an interesting direction, but I do worry about the tight integration of IoT controllers and direct Internet connectivity.
Why do we need Battery Back-up anyway ???
I never understood this. All the logic of Smartthings runs in the cloudsâŚ
If you have a power cut, your broadband is likely to be down as well, hence no connectivity to the hub.
Without a connection, the Hub is merely a sitting dead duck with a blue LED on the front !
I often lose broadband connections and canât even turn my lights on / off without a connection⌠The hub2 was supposed to be able to run some code locally, this is not the case! so why the batteries back up?
ZigBee Z-Wave âextendersâ would be awsome!
it would be great is the meshed devices extend the zigBee Z-Wave signal. I have an old house (fat stone walls) on free floors and I had to extend my network with wires (LAN of Powerline). It would be great if I could connect these meshed devices as a local âhubâ child and relay to the hub master over powerline⌠this would be a key feature for meâŚ
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I see two issues:
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Why in the heck would I bundle a wifi router and a smart hub? This is right up there with the combination tv/vcr.
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If this new device continues to process schedules and automations in the cloud instead of locally, itâs an automatic no-go for me.
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I have a MAJOR worry about this combo item.
Zigbee and Mesh WiFi do not play happily with each other since they tend to run across each otherâs bandwidths.
If you check the forums youâll see lots of articles about motion sensors disconnecting etc. after the installation of mesh networks. The major fix, which I did and it seems to have resolved most of my issues was to move the hub 10â from the nearest WiFi access point and add additional Zigbee plugs around my home to act as repeaters. If the Zigbee transmitter/receiver and the WiFi mesh router are in the same box theyâll be no way to separate them.
Maybe this means that ST is phasing out Zigbee but I somehow doubt that since, at least for now everything ST branded is still using Zigbee.
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I dumped my Apple Extreme and Express router/extender as soon as this statement came out. Not just for the statement itself, but I was having some connectivity issues with it for whatever reason.
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I donât have a need for a mesh system since I use open-mesh apâs but I would use the âhubâ portion of it
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This seems extremely unlikely since one of STâs major selling points is its support for multiple home automation wireless protocols. Anythingâs possible though I guess. Iâm also curious to see how they plan to deal with wifi/zigbee interference issues if the router and hub are combined in one physical device.
Hmm with all the unlimited data plans being offered, the new hub/router might give you the option to tether to your S8 if the internet connection goes down lol 
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I would love to be a tester for ST on this stuffâŚ
Unclear on what advantages this offers to a current v2 usersâŚ
Not interested in Samsung WifiâŚ
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