Great video. Just starting out with YoLink Hub, Gate Sensor and Garage Door Sensor and looking forward to adding more. Will watch for your additional videos.
If you live near someone with a Yolink hub installed, your Yolink devices can use their hub, to talk to your Yolink account in the Yolink cloud. I learned this from Yolink support, after installing two systems near each other.
It does require wifi to get any sort of notifications though which is pretty useless without it unless you never leave the house. I have about 30 Yolink products in my home and they work great.
I started with yolink 4 yrs ago. I've added a hub to wifi in truck, this gives me wireless truck security, mostly vibration sensor is used. Great system!
Thanks, very helpful video, Question: I'm considering using this hub in conjunction with a Bulldog automatic valve shutoff, but at a remote location that does not have internet service. I can download the app to my phone before going to the location, but after that, can this system be setup standalone, with no internet service to connect the hub to? If not, if I have no internet at the location, but can get a signal to my phone for setup, will that work, and allow subsequent automatic water shutoff with no internet or notification involved? Thanks!
The hub and devices works well, but this video is wrong. I have tried over and over to get this device to connect to our 'guest' wifi - I don't want it connected directly to our LAN. The hub refuses to connect to the guest (2.4) WiFi network. I've tried both without a network connection and with a network connection via Ethernet. My biggest concern is that I have no control over how this hub is connecting to my Internet connection, so I'd rather have it on the guest WiFi. But that doesn't seem to be possible.
Some guest WiFi requires a sign on page after connecting to the network. That will not work with smart home devices. Sometimes you can disable that extra sign on page, or some times create a secondary wifi connection not flagged as "guest" that will not have the extra sign on page.
Great video !! Very very helpful we just got ours to monitor our deep freeze in our basement so the hard method #2 probably won’t work we’ll try 1 and 3. Thank you so much for doing this !! 👍
@@Outlaw_SEO I bought a kit, tested and it's not, I emailed and worked with developers, it's under development, no feature is available other than letting you know for example if the door sensor is open or close! Smart home needs more than this...
@@payambakhshi1498 - Most of their sensors work by showing either being on or off and then setting automation based on that. What were you trying to achieve?
Because Google doesn't provide api for third-party sensors yet, it only works with smart plugs and controlling devices. All the YoLink smart plugs, switches and controlling devices work with Google Assistant, not the sensors. But all YoLink sensors and controlling devices work with the Alexa.
After an outage the hub powers on and connects to the devices through its own LORA network. If you have an alarm setup and some device is is being tripped, the alarm will sound off. Without an alarm, once the internet also comes back - then it can send the notification. On a side note: I discovered that my YoLink power strip did not cycle back on after an extended outage. I had to do it manually.
We got it and prices are reasonable. Hubs required no big deal. Different frequency so hub probably only way to handle. They really work well. The monitor for freezer is only solution have found that actually works for location. And outdoor sensor has opened up lots of function.
Yes, Alexa can only control Wi-Fi connected devices. The yolink devices are LORA, not WiFi, so they can only talk to the hub. Alexa can communicate with those devices via the hub.
