Fibaro Home Center 3 Lite

Name: Fibaro Home Center 3 Lite
Brand: Fibaro
SKU: 879526
Price: 119.99 EUR
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Rating: 8.5 (4 reviews)

Review is 8,5 out of 10, based on 4 reviews.
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Key specs

	Smart home platform	Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, IFTTT
	Power supply type	Power grid
	Linkable to a protocol

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Pros and cons

According to our smart home hub expert

You can set up to 40 different scenes with this smart home hub.
Thanks to this hub, it's possible to control all connected devices with one app.
The base station uses sensors that support WiFi and Z-Wave.
The accessories that you connect to the hub aren't included by default.
This smart home hub isn't suitable for houses larger than 100m² with many smart home devices.

Description

The Fibaro Home Center 3 Lite is a starter model base station that helps you to start your smart home. This smaller variant of the Home Center 3 is especially suitable for automatization of small houses and apartments. You can use the Home Center app or the web interface to control your lights, speakers, or thermostat from any location. Because this smart home hub has both WiFi and Z-wave support, you can connect many different brands and devices. For example, you can easily set scenes for Sonos, Philips Hue, and Fibaro equipment. In addition, it's possible to give voice commands to Google Assistant, Siri, or Alexa.

Tips for using this product

Included by default

Manual
Network cable
AC adapter

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Review is 9,2 out of 10.

Ideal for a smaller Z-wave network.

A quick search to connect the device to my Wifi, but in the meantime reliably join my Z-wave network.

Review by:
Jochen Hellemans
Date:
23 June 2021
Translation:
Automatically translated from Dutch

Review is 10 out of 10.

HC3L is a good product for a very reasonable price.

Easy installation
Fibaro products work flawlessly. Plenty of switching options.
Relatively low price. Other home centers very expensive
App and website not very impressive. No wow factor..

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.

Review by:
Guido Beijderwellen
Date:
18 April 2022
Translation:
Automatically translated from Dutch

Review is 6,4 out of 10.

You need to take some time to install it..

Best for z wave
Beautiful interface
Came out too early

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:

Mobile App still lacks many functionalities that are available in the web interface.
The web interface works very poorly on a mobile phone. Unusable.
Fibaro has developed a new framework for the HC3. So you have to convert all your code. That will take some time. Ultimately it is better, because you now have more options and you can code neater, but all short codes are over.
You no longer have loops in your virtual devices (now called QuickApps). You will need to update information through events. That makes it a bit more complex, but ultimately more clean.
I bought it to control my somfy screens, but unfortunately, that's not in it. I made a link between fibaro and homey for this. That works fine in principle, but maybe a bit overkill.
Linking with IFTTT is very unstable and unusable. If you use IFTTT a lot, use a web service link.
No more NEST support. You can no longer add the nest thermostat. I also had to write a QuickApp for this.
It crashes regularly if you call multiple actions at the same time or call a device that is not responding. Very annoying.

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 ;-)

Review by:
Mitchell
Date:
29 August 2020
Translation:
Automatically translated from Dutch

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Specifications

Product

Product
	Product number	879526
	Manufacturer code	HC3L-001 (1) EU
	Brand	Fibaro
	Warranty	2 years
	Processing of your defect	Carry-in warranty

Physical properties

Physical properties
	Height	3,1 cm
	Depth	1,1 cm
	Width	17,8 cm
	Weight	0,18 kg
	Color	White
	Material	Plastic
	Built-in screen
	Built-in microphone
	Water-resistant

Power supply

Power supply
	Power supply type	Power grid

Network and streaming

Network and streaming
	Link to router	Wireless
	Multi-room audio
	Plays from network
	Bluetooth
	NFC

Smart Home compatibility

Smart Home compatibility
	Controls via app
	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

Other properties

Other properties
	Clock speed	0,9 GHz
	Internal RAM	0,5 GB
	Protocol	TCP/IP, WiFi, Z-Wave, Z-Wave Plus

Introduction year and updates

Introduction year and updates
	Guaranteed support with updates	Unknown
	Year introduced	2021
	Introduction month	February

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