Totally fair, but it’s becoming more common 
We have 3-4x the number of employees we did a year ago. I can’t wait until you all can experience our upcoming releases.
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I’ve been talking to a few engineers about this. I see it happening.
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Did you talk to some engineers or a magic 8 ball? 
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SSH into the hub or SSH from the hub to local devices?
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Will ST be releasing some devices types for certain Bluetooth devices at launch then? Or will Bluetooth be completely disabled at first and enabled at a later software/firmware update?
I was hoping to pair [Flic buttons][1] to the V2 hub (when both are out) so that the buttons aren’t dependent on my phone being nearby.
Thank you Tyler for answering so many of our questions!
[1]: https://flic.io/
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I second the Flic button integration.
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A brief tangent: I have a tablet set up permanently as a home automation dashboard. All the various apps, including acting as the receiving station for the iBeacon on my wheelchair. My plan is to associate the Flics with that. 
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They work independently of each other, I had mentioned in another post that I am waiting for Hub 2. So for now Sonos and Hue are just run off Apps and two Hue Taps.
I’d be curious what you are doing for speakers, I find my self using a $20 bluetooth speaker more often then Sonos because I want to listen to Youtube or Podcasts that aren’t availble easily through Sonos.
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ok big laugh here. The idea of a leak sensor opening a ssh session to say “battery 66%” is hilarious. For the low-low price of $130 per sensor and 2 weeks battery life.
Glad I can make you laugh, but in all seriousness, ssh would be useful for connecting to other systems securely. More to this then just a simple wireless device.
Putting or grabbing a file via ssh or sftp or even tftp could be very useful.
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I watched the video and started to get excited until they said “4 layer board with 10 processors.” Four layers seems a little low for such an advanced circuit board; and 10 processors seems too high of a number. My computer only has four.
I would not say it’s a scam, but it does seem way to good to be true. Either that or super expensive. What is their start up goal? $500,000,000?
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"And that’s not even the best part!"
He’s thinking “The best part is how you’re going to pay for all of this so I don’t have to. And when I can’t fulfill my promise, I will laugh at you.”
It seems way too good to be true. SmartThings promise was way smaller than this product and they’re still working out some of the kinks. Can you imagine how many problems a device like this will have if it launches too early? I don’t think it will ever see the light of day.
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This one thing scares me the most and is keeping me from jumping in now with the V1 hub. I don’t want to spend time getting the system going just to have the new hub release a week later and completely scrap all of that.
I’ll wait, but the clock is ticking…
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I’d hope from the hub. But hopefully you will have access to devices as well. Similar to how you can SSH into a computer then open/eject the Disk Drive.
Same, I use an old Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 with CyanogenMod 12. I call it “SmartCommand”. Bad news it doesn’t have Bluetooth 4 so no Low Energy support. I’m looking to get a phone and create a “SmartCommand, Jr.”
The hub v1 has entered/exited my Amazon shopping cart MANY times lately. But, I choose to continue waiting… Mostly because I’m on a tight budget.
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I apologize if this question has already been answered, but this thread is rather long – so I might have missed it… Is there an ETA for the new hub? Next few weeks? Months? Days? I know someone at ST said they already had a working unit in their home that they were testing, and I thought that was a few months ago?
Will there be any difference in the way the new hub handles connections to LAN devices? The current HubAction calls just to do simple REST callouts are not exactly…intuitive. I know this may be more related to software than hardware, but I figured I’d ask. I’ve got an app I’d like to change to use callouts via LAN instead of from the cloud, but if there’s a cleaner way to handle it coming up, then I’ll definitely hold off on that.
I hate to break it to you but if you’re on a tight budget and spending $99 on a v1 hub is causing you to hesitate i would question how rough it’s going to be on you once you get hooked on the SmartThings environment and flexibility. I don’t know about you but once one of your devices comes on automatically when you walk in a room your hooked. This can become an addictive and very expensive hobby (Thanks ST 
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A year ago I bought some Wemo outlets to turn some christmas lights on and off. Then I tried ST and now in less than 5 months I have over 60 devices (mostly z-wave) at probably embarrassingly close to $3500 and I don’t have any plans to stop as long as the wife continues to approve.
Good Luck…
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The SmartThings staff received early version Beta units as part of company testing, but that’s typical in product development.
No announced release date yet, and the product has not yet been certified by the third party agencies.
If you sign up for the SmartThings blog emails (sign up at the bottom of the blog page) you should see the notification of release once it’s available.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m hooked on the idea of home automation!
However, Everything that I buy is being well planned: what brand/model will be best for what I’m trying to automate? I do have enough money to get a good setup working, but I want to spend that wisely.
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So how long will we have to wait for that? Worthless for me to buy v2 without the migration tool so I’m more interested in that date now. GRRR!