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Arlec Grid Connect Smart Home Hub
Have two both work perfectly. Set-up for clients as well.
Had no problems except used AutoScan instead of add manually, funny how complainants also indulge in assumptions. These products are considered some of the best in the smart home market. Considered by some of the Home Assistant crowd to be a worthy product and they are not easy to win over either. Why call yourself "Smart Arlec" if you don't know anything about Arlec smart products? Obviously your pairing a bluetooth product to your phone and a wifi product to your AP, it may take you more than one go to get it right. Rather than assume a company has completely diched QA or is taking bribes from "factories", assume you need to do a little more reading.
Purchased at Bunnings Warehouse for $29.
Works as described
Works great! Range is only Bluetooth but you can have multiple hubs nearer to your sensors. I mounted a couple in my roof cavity. Does the whole house. Never touched em since initial pairing. Amazing.
Purchased in at Bunnings Warehouse.
I must have the only one that works properly right out the box!
I had no trouble setting the hub up straight away, and set up two motion sensors and a climate sensor with it. It took a few minutes after setting up the two motion sensors - each paired to smart lightbulbs - to work properly (settling in, I guess) but after that they all work fine, no regrets. I'd get more sensors if I could justify it.
Purchased in .
Questions & Answers
Is this a listening in device
can i use ths without wifi
No, unfortunately the device does not have an RJ45 network port and must be connected to a WiFi network. Extend the range of your wifi and connect multiple bluetooth hubs to cover the areas your sensors are located.
it has limited Bluetooth range
I have arlec fan lights and I can't get the lights to dim via voice control (hey will dim via the app ) and am wondering what I am doing wrong ?
Which voice assistant are you using ?
hey Freda,
have you tried at techenquiries@arlec.com.au or +613 9982 5000....
Read more unfortunately, the call centre just takes notes of inquiries, it is sad the tech support team is not motivated. They just escalate to the poor engineer who responds with a generic answer or palms the issue to the third party (manufacturer of the wifi router or mobile device) to configure the connection. In their defense, there are many third party devices in the market that could potentially work with their smart devices but the tech support team should have learn fixes for popular third party devices. Steve, My home made fix worked well for 1 week after my post. Now the dongle is a black box, a cheap imitation of a Christmas ornament with a single flashing blue led. I ran a 10m "cable" to the auxilary garage door opener at one end of the garage, which faces the garage door - hence I wanted a wifi /bluetooth remote garage door opener as a backup in the event I am locked out or for convenience. I cant maintain wifi connection and my wifi AP that is less than 15 cm apart from the garage dongle aka black magic box. Please provide solution.Contact Arlec directly via there website, my problem was the same. A ridiculously short range, they sent me out a replacement product & it works well.
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