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For those of you that have lights connected directly to your Google home, any tips? I disconnected my wink hub and ONLY have the home and Sylvania smart+ bulbs, so I'd like to connect them directly to the Google, which one of their videos says is possible. I've also attempted to connect them to the stupid Sylvania hub but no success their either. If directly to the gh is not possible. I've reset the bulbs and deleted them from the wink hub.  
For those of you that have lights connected directly to your Google home, any tips?

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Best answer
Get a Smartthings V3 hub
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Are they wifi or zwave/zigbee? Google home has no secondary radio so wifi only.  
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@mcauliffe379 zigbee
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@extracurricular then you need a bridge, or an Amazon Echo has zigbee built in.  
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The Wink Hub is still good hardware. Its hackable if you are so inclined. I'm still researching and got one coming off eBay for $15. They run Linux, I'll soon see what it can do without Wink support.  
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@dispassionate link some articles?  
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@mcauliffe379 still researching. Try, where I started, 'google root wink hub'. Will have more when mine arrives and I verify 'things on the internet' are true. If you have one and root it, let me know what one you used. I currently have completed making two Wink Relays MQTT, was fairly simple and there is one to go Smart Things, but my goal is totally local.  
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@dispassionate I just nuked my wink1 hub and moving to hass. io on a pi, but if I can still get some use from the wink then why not. I'll have to check it out.  
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@mcauliffe379 I'm looking to make it, first a router for all the radios, second, maybe run something like NodeRed on it (dreaming maybe). I ordered a Wink Hub 2 as it has ethernet also, hate WiFi when there is another way and for $16 I had to, after all the luck with the Wink Relays.  
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Thank you everyone, I figured it out after taking a break and coming back to it this morning!  
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