Product Description The Cassia Hub is a new Bluetooth router that liberates your Bluetooth devices from short range and one-to-one pairing. You can control up to 22 compatible devices in any room of your home. Cassia’s Smart Antenna extends your Bluetooth signal through walls, and up to a thousand feet in open air. From the Manufacturer Do I need a Bluetooth Router? Ever wish Bluetooth worked as easy as your Wi-Fi network? With a Bluetooth Router like the Cassia Hub, it can. It’s a simple and practical way to control multiple Bluetooth devices like speakers or smart bulbs from anywhere in your home. Using Bluetooth at home was never this easy, or this powerful. An Award Winning Breakthrough The Cassia Hub won the Best of CES 2016 award for Best Connected Home Product. It’s also a Breakthrough Award Finalist with the Bluetooth SIG, the body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and licensing. Move Freely Through Your Home Move freely throughout your home without losing connection to your Bluetooth devices. With extended range, you can control your Bluetooth devices from your favorite spot in any room. Connect Multiple Devices Depending on the the type of device, the Cassia Hub can stay paired and connected to up to 22 devices. You can organize your Bluetooth devices into groups for easy access and control. Stream to Multiple Speakers With Cassia BlueStream enabled, simply connect to the Cassia Hub like you would to any Bluetooth speaker with your audio source device. Then, stream to up to three Bluetooth speakers at the same time. Cassia Hub Technical Details Cassia Hub requires an active 2.4GHz internet connection. The Cassia App is available for use on iOS7+ and Android 4.3+ mobile devices. Check Cassia Networks website for a list of compatible devices. About the Startup Describe your product in 3 words.Liberate Your BluetoothHow did you come up with the idea for this product?As a former Cisco engineer, Aruba executive, and founder of his own WiFi mesh networking company, Felix Zhao has been on the search for a universal wireless protocol for nearly two decades. Unhappy with WiFi’s effect on battery life and ZigBee and Z-wave’s lack of integration with smartphones, Felix finally settled on Bluetooth for its open standard and universal reach and compatibility. Bluetooth was a natural choice because not only is every smartphone Bluetooth enabled, but an estimated 4 billion Bluetooth enabled devices are expected to ship worldwide in 2016 according to Bluetooth SIG’s annual report.What makes your product special?The Cassia Hub is truly unique and innovative. It’s the world’s first Bluetooth Router, and the only product to connect up to 3 Bluetooth Classic devices and up to 22 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices at the same time and extend their range over 1,000 feet.What has been the best part of your startup experience?The challenge for Cassia Networks at first was figuring out how to solve the problems associated with Bluetooth without requiring any changes on the end devices. The best part of the startup experience has been knowing that the improvements we are bringing to Bluetooth are going to ultimately foster a whole new class of affordable Bluetooth IoT and connected home devices online in a way that was previously not possible. With the Cassia Hub, the future of seamless Bluetooth connectivity is now here.
M**C
Overall the concept is good, and the sound isn't bad
Overall the concept is good, and the sound isn't bad.. However the app to connect everything is horrible, not very intuitive, and has not real instructions on how to connect to your music device AND relay through the hub.Additionally all the speakers are named the same, C1001, so you don't know which one you are connecting to the hub, nor which one is the one you are changing settings on.While it claims to work with Amazon Echo, getting it set up was a nightmare, it took me over an hour for the Echo to be able to connect AND stream the Alexa voice and music, because you have to have both the Alexa App and the Cassis App open at the same time to coordinate the connection, which requires the use of 2 different devices, which is not explained ANYWHERE in the Cassia help documents.Overall I am happy with it now that it is working but the setup was a pain.Lastly I purchased a third speaker which won't power on, so now I have to return it and wait another 2 weeks and go through this setup hell again.good concept, decent sound for what it is, but horrible app and setup system.
M**S
Finally an easy way to play music throughout the home
Excellent Product! Easy to setup and enjoy music throughout the household. Finally i have a way to move the speakers where needed and with a volume control per speaker. The speakers sound great!Playing Spotify or iTunes off my iPhone couldn't be any easier.
