SmartThings Hub V2 now available for pre-order

[Ben (Ben Edwards)]

@Navat604

I don’t see what’s so great about V2 and video. Do you mind explain?

I would look to this conversation and others.

SmartThings Hub Version 2.0

I love the SmartThings platform. I feel it’s about time we start to talk about the next version of the hub. When you think about it the Home Automation industry makes it extremely easy to “jump ship”. The reliability, technical support, GUI, device integration, etc. play a major role in sticking with the Smartthings hub or moving all of your devices to a new platform. I used another platform before switching to Smartthings. I won’t mention the name of my prior platform but it became very unstable, I was constantly looking for answers. Smartthings is awesome. They are brand new but look how far they came and how quickly they did so. I have ideas of features i would like to see in the next version of the hub and I’m sure together we could get a solid list going of ideas that would impove the…

and also this:

Sell me on v2 Hub

I don’t want this to be taken extremely negative, but is anyone else on the fence about buying the v2 hub? I think love SmartThings, but I’m starting to wonder if I just love the idea of Smartthings. The IDE is crippling slow most of the time, I can’t edit device types I create. My hue lights never turn off properly through the app, but always when I use the Hue Tap. I got woken up at 5am the other morning, as the cat set off the motion alarm, and instead of playing the weather forecast my Sonos started blasting Bruno Mars. How does investing more money in a hub fix any of these issues? Will apps still not fire when scheduled? Will the IDE remain difficult to use?