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I am looking at putting some switches and sensors in my house. My question, should I go Smarthings, Hubitat or somethings else? I have a Ring and a Nest along with a Google Hub and Amazon Echo. I have good internet and a decent router, get over 150 down and 50 upload. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks.  
I am looking at putting some switches and sensors in my house.

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Before you begin, check your electrical wiring to make sure you have common wire. I moved from house, actually removed all my smart switches only to discover the new location did not have. Having comon wire makes it much simpler getting correct switches. I would suggest zwave as the protocol. Next question you need to ask yourself is your desired result to be locally controlled or cloud? If you want something simple, and the cloud is not a concern go with Smartthings. They continue to add features to interface, and is real easy to set up.  
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I would suggest Hassio. It's awesome and fun to set up and configure
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For light switches I highly recommend Lutron Caseta. The switches have worked for me 100% of the time when needed. They have models that require the neutral cable and models that do not for both on/off and dimmer switches. I don't have neutral cable in my home so majority of switches weren't an option. Lutron does use a hub and the hub has a limit of 75 switches. A 2nd hub can be used to add more switches if needed. They work great with Smartthings, Google Home, and Alexa.  
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@jennifer as far as I know you must use the Lutron Caseta hub for the Caseta switches. I linked my switches to smartthings hub though and use them with motion and open/close sensors.  
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@jennifer Go with smartthings (in my opinion) hubitat is great but advanced. Smartthings has worked for me. I use actiontiles on 2 separate Samsung tab6's. Lutron is the top of the line for sure. I like the inovelli(which just was recommended to me) and the ge z wave. Love the August smart lock. works really well. the possibilities are endless. It becomes a hobby
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Can you or someone else explain me why would you have both Amazon Echo and Google Hub? What's the point?  
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Well, it all depends on your needs. If you going to use your voice - Alexa and Google or Android and Siri are amazing for that. If you are going to use automation - lots of options. I limited myself to 2 broad companies - Sonoff and Xiaomi. In Europe we do not have big choice. So thanks to China we can have at least some. I mostly enjoy Xiaomi. They produce amazing variety of things and their automation is brilliant.  
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