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General Category => Ideas/Feature requests => Topic started by: mparadis on July 17, 2017, 10:30:40 am

Title: Ideal Home Hub System
Post by: mparadis on July 17, 2017, 10:30:40 am
Thought it might be fun to do up a thread of things that would be ideal in future devices or with future firmware.

An ideal home hub system for me would include / be:


I have undoubtedly forgotten things. Most of the software/ hardware features that already exist in the Almond ecosystem I didn't include.
Title: Re: Ideal Home Hub System
Post by: fillibar on July 17, 2017, 12:10:23 pm
Couple to comment on while I have a second:
USB, should be able to be disabled. It would also be beneficial if the USB was hidden (for use with accessories). I do not think all that support is needed though, not directly. See next item
Mounting could be a frame/box/dock mounting for power, extended battery, all cables, etc... This could be an accessory itself. If the unit will be wall mounted it connects additional battery and cabling. If desk mounted it makes more USB ports available (assuming an office) or a simple clean dock/stand.
PoE... It would be useful if it could receive power via PoE but I would not expect it to supply it. Less cables to hook up then.
Speakers should be stereo. Even better if it could play it's audio via Bluetooth though.
Mesh units could be configured in a fallback manner to the master if it fails for some reason. But this would be optionally enabled (on by default) with the fallback order and maybe reasons selectable.
Title: Re: Ideal Home Hub System
Post by: mparadis on July 17, 2017, 01:40:12 pm
Couple to comment on while I have a second:
USB, should be able to be disabled. It would also be beneficial if the USB was hidden (for use with accessories). I do not think all that support is needed though, not directly. See next item
Mounting could be a frame/box/dock mounting for power, extended battery, all cables, etc... This could be an accessory itself. If the unit will be wall mounted it connects additional battery and cabling. If desk mounted it makes more USB ports available (assuming an office) or a simple clean dock/stand.
PoE... It would be useful if it could receive power via PoE but I would not expect it to supply it. Less cables to hook up then.
Speakers should be stereo. Even better if it could play it's audio via Bluetooth though.
Mesh units could be configured in a fallback manner to the master if it fails for some reason. But this would be optionally enabled (on by default) with the fallback order and maybe reasons selectable.

All good ideas and better written than I was able to communicate  :D
Title: Ideal Home Hub System
Post by: KamElect on August 02, 2019, 09:42:44 am
There is an older thread here somewhere. Youll find the reason for not having a plugin in it. And some info how you can at least control the hub with an external app.