Fibaro Home Center 3
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With the Fibaro Home Center 3, you can automate your home and control smart devices remotely. Use the Home Center app or the web interface to control your lights, speakers, thermostat, and more from any location. The base station has a wider range, more memory, and a higher capacity than its predecessor. Home Center 3 communicates wirelessly via Z-Wave Plus as well as via WiFi. As a result, you can connect a large number of smart devices in addition to Fibaro products, such as Sonos speakers and Hue lighting. On top of that, you can give voice commands via Google Assistant, Siri, or Alexa.
Smart home platform | Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, IFTTT | |
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Power supply type | Power grid | |
Linkable to a protocol |
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A quick search to connect the device to my Wifi, but in the meantime reliably join my Z-wave network.
Jochen Hellemans
23 June 2021
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The HC3L is certainly an excellent option for the beginner. It is often more than enough for a smaller home. Broad support for Philips Hue lamps is also an advantage.
Guido Beijderwellen
18 April 2022
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I'm happy with it myself. I replaced my HC2 with my new HC3. Unfortunately, a lot is still not going well with the HC3, but I did get everything stable and working thanks to many external components. But if you want to use this as your main controller, I'd definitely wait a little longer.
The bugs I am currently experiencing:
But once set up, everything works properly. In itself I got it to work reasonably well and it works stable, but it is quite a job to get everything right and to make work-a-roud on work-a-round.
The link with Siri and google home is also not very stable. For this I installed home assistant on my NAS and connected it to Fibaro. Then I reprogrammed the HC2 plugin to HC3 because the API URLs etc have also been adjusted.
In other words, the product is just not finished yet. Knowing Fibaro, they will come with updates that fixes everything, but it will take a while. If you now have an HC2, I would stay on that. If you are looking for a completely new controller, you might consider a Homey. If you are good at tinkering and scripting, I still recommend the HC3 and a synology NAS with docker so that you can solve the missing functions in other ways ;-)
Mitchell
29 August 2020
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Product number | 858977 |
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Manufacturer code | FGHC3 EU BLACK |
Brand | Fibaro |
Warranty | 2 years |
Processing of your defect | Carry-in warranty |
Height | 3,5 cm | |
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Depth | 14 cm | |
Width | 22 cm | |
Weight | 0,42 kg | |
Color | Black | |
Material | Plastic | |
Built-in screen | ||
Built-in microphone | ||
Water-resistant |
Power supply type | Power grid |
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Link to router | Wired, Wireless | |
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Multi-room audio | ||
Plays from network | ||
Bluetooth | ||
NFC |
Controls via app | ||
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Compatible with smartphone / apps | ||
Controlled via Apple app | ||
Controlled via Android app | ||
Controlled via Windows app | ||
Linkable to home automation | ||
Control panel included | ||
Smart home platform | Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, IFTTT |
Clock speed | 1,2 GHz | |
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Internal RAM | 2 GB | |
Protocol | TCP/IP, WiFi, Z-Wave, Z-Wave Plus |
Guaranteed support with updates | 60 months after release date | |
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Year introduced | 2020 | |
Introduction month | March |
