Hubitat’s smart home hub eschews the cloud, but extreme usability challenges make it difficult for us to recommend—especially to beginners. The Hubitat Elevation smart hub was born with noble ...

The Hubitat Elevation smart-home hub promises more privacy than the competition by keeping all of the data it needs to power your smart home stored locally. The rules needed for your door sensor to ...

The Hubitat Elevation doesn’t depend on the cloud—all smart home programming and execution is performed locally. The biggest downside to this powerful system is that it is difficult to master. Whether ...

At first glance, the Hubitat Elevation struck me as a pretty standard smart home hub. It has Zigbee and Z-Wave built in so it can communicate with a variety of connected gadgets. You can set up rules ...