YoLinkSpeakerHub - Smart Home Speaker Hub, Plays Tones/Alarms and Your Text-to-Speech Custom Messages, Voice Announcements, Audio Voice Alert, Spoken Alerts, LoRa-Powered ¼ Mile Range, WiFi Required

Love the way hub notifies you with loud voice.

The SpeakerHub announces when a sensor has been triggered. This has tremendous value when you are within hearing range of the hub and 1) cannot receive or see your phone for SMS or email notifications or 2) you are not a user of the YoLink App. For example, you have gate sensors on your property but it is night and your are asleep. The SpeakerHub would alert you to an intruder. It will speak the description of the sensor and optionally sound an alert tone. It can be repeated up to 3 times with a volume level you set. It can also be programmed to do this during a time window you set. Another occupant, e.g., your wife, a guest, your kids, etc., who don't have the App on their phone, would hear the alert. This could apply to a gate sensor or water leak sensor or any other YoSmart sensor.I bought two if these for my home. I have one in my living room/kitchen area that is always enabled. The other is in my bedroom enabled on a schedule during sleeping hours.I live on an acre with multiple entry gates. If someone is on my prop, especially during night hours, they are probably up to no good. I'd rather know before they can do harm.BTW, to use two or more SpeakerHubs, you will need to program the "Automation" feature in the App. This is not difficult. YoSmart has a video tutorial for this. I recommend watching all the video tutorials that apply to you equipment and setting up everything in front of you before you install. Label the sensors so you can keep track of which is which.YoSmart is the first company, after years of looking online, to offer an outdoor, waterproof, gate sensor with truly long-range wireless communication. Not only am I on 1 acre but my prop slopes downhill from my house. The gate sensors 150' away and down the hill communicate consistently with the YoLink Hub.I use Energizer lithium batteries (2 AA) in the gate sensors because they don't leak and are much longer lasting than any alkaline AA battery.The variety of sensors made by this company is extensive. Where I don't already have in-place sensors and Apps by other companies, I will now consolidate by using YoSmart sensors only. There are some YoSmart leak detection sensors in my future.

Already had the regular hub. But wanted the personalized voice notification and warning feature of this hub. Added this as a second hub to my system, and it does not interfere with or break the connections of devices paired with the first hub. Use it mostly for the voice notification feature. Automations to deliver voice notifications are easy to set up if you follow available online instruction videos. Like how you can type in your own personalized notifications, and it speaks them clearly without any problem. Adjustable volume level, with the loudness being more than adequate to be heard at a distance. Connects by Wi-Fi only, but also found this easy to configure. Very happy with this purchase.

I've got probably $1,000 worth of YoLink in my home. It started with a water leak detector and hub. Then another, and another until I had every source of water in my house protected. Then the holy grail; the automatic valve that shuts off the water to the house entirely.So since this system is so easy to set up, so easy to program, so easy to configure, I had to have more. Motion detectors around the house, including the mailbox, so I had to get this speaker hub to announce, "Mail's here!" I've also installed another motion detector to watch my front porch and announce when Amazon shows up (who never ring the bell, even at night!) I put a temperature sensor in my bathroom when I turn on the heater in the winter. It announces when it's nice and toasty!Don't get me wrong, there were a couple of moments when things just didn't seem right. Then I keep looking and find the solution. There was one occasion where I was absolutely stumped. I called tech support and the response was nothing short of great, by a knowledgeable tech, and the problem was solved in five minutes!If this company built a flying car, I would buy it, site unseen!