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Originally Posted by OtinG
The TP-Link bulbs and smartplugs don’t require a separate hub, neither does my Govee RGBIC Alexa LED Strip Lights. I don’t have a separate hub except for the one built into my Echo Plus 2nd gen. Can you use Hubitat with such devices that don’t require a separate hub? I assume yes since you have TP-Llink bulbs. |
Yes, if there's a driver available for them, and there is for most TP-Link devices, and other wifi-only (hubless) devices I've had in the house. There's a pretty active dev community, so if the local network control protocols are known or can be reverse engineered, there's a good chance someone has made a driver for it.
The one exception in my case being the Amazon smart plugs. My very brief search did not show a local control driver for them, just some seemingly convoluted cloud-based hack, and I wasn't all that interested in trying it. (I'm not even sure where my one remaining amazon smart plug is at the moment.)
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