YoLink Smart Home Hub, YS1603

YoLink has many home monitoring systems including water links, video and thermostats. I use only the water leak detection system. The system uses an app to program and control leak detectors that automatically detect and send notifications to email and mobile phone. I also installed an online inline automated water valve to turn off the water if a leak is detected. I have placed a detector near the washing machine, the refrigerator and dishwasher, and the water heater. Basically, anywhere there could be water leaks, there is a small detector. The detectors also have great range. I even put one near the intake from the well to monitor for frozen pipes. The system works extremely well. It will also connect to the internet to allow for online control anywhere there is internet. However, internet is NOT needed for the system to detect and turn off the water. But is needed for online control and notification. Not sure if you can set up for a phone call notification. The valve cutoffs are very good quality and work flawlessly. I have the model that allows you to simply fit it to the existing cutoff valve. This setup allows for a simple install usually without a plumber. There is also an improved inline cutoff valve that sadly was not available when I installed my system. This newer improved model completely replaced the existing cutoff valve. Or you could install the new inline valve in addition to the existing valve. Mine is in the pump house but it can easily be installed in the water cutoff box coming from the street. The system worked well for multiple years until I began having “detector offline” notifications. YoLink support worked immediately with me to diagnose and solve the issue. They even added an additional hub at their expense. All in, a very well designed and constructed system with excellent customer support. The app is also top quality. I would definitely recommend YoLink for instant peace of mind that your home will not be flooded while at work or traveling.

Having used a lot of home automation devices over the years (including X-10 and Z-Wave), this one is superior. Their installation process is quick and simple. They supply QR codes to get you started. The smart phone app is easy to use and intuitive. Another good thing is there are no fees to operate it unless you have a lot of sensor activity (high SMS traffic), but the fees are modest. I have heard that integrating to Alexa might be a problem but since I don't use that, I don't care. Having just installed it, only time will tell if it is truly a winner. However, since the hubs are inexpensive, I plan on getting a spare. I believe that installing a new or multiple hubs is pretty easy also. After using this for 6 weeks, I still find it to work very well. The only issue I have encountered is the area I am in has sporadic but brief power outages which can disrupt the operation of the dimmers and switches but they have a retry function available. Update: This product is a winner. Been using this for over a year. Again, their app works well and is easy to use and as far as I have been able to determine, they have all imaginable functions and features covered. All of their devices work well and are reasonably priced, especially compared to Z-Wave. The variety of devices available is outstanding and their solution for operating garage door openers is remarkable. YoLink's customer service is responsive and helpful. Found one small issue with pairing a device: one of the fobs is black with white printing used for the QR code pairing. Their app only recognizes black printing with a white background. The workaround was to scan the QR code, reverse the image and have the app scan the reversed image.

I bought the YoLink hub back in 2022 and it worked but was intermittent connecting to my 8 devices inside the house as well as in the garage. Finally it failed completely a few weeks ago. I called YoLink CS which troubleshooted the problem to my hub being bad. They sent me a replacement hub and everything connected perfectly and has been rock solid for a week now! I love YoLink products but their customer service is so good that it gives me confidence to deploy more YoLink devices everywhere!

We went on vacation and came home to find our kitchen breaker tripped during a storm. We decided to try the YoLink system out and are very pleased with the results! We bought the hub and 4 thermostats. The hub is placed in a cabinet in the middle of our house and the thermostats in both the garage fridge and kitchen fridge work perfectly! The app is easy to install as well. The pic shows what we see in the app and we set alarms to let us know if there’s temp variations.

Oh yeah I must say these were the simplest iot device is I ever set up. Many kudos to whoever designed it. They arrived by Amazon and I'd been working in the shop all day cleaning firearms. I was somewhat intoxicated when they arrived... Yet without reading the instructions. I got this hub setup and connected to my Lan along with one of their temperature sensors from a garage freezer and less than 5 minutes... All of this while plastered. Many kudos!. The only negative thing I could say, and it is subtly mentioned in the description, but you do not have unlimited alerts by SMS or email. You only get like 15 SMS and maybe a few hundred emails on one's for alerting status. I can understand because they have to run the servers and there's a cost behind it. What they should do is allow me to put in my own mail server credentials if I want to and have my own mail server send Auto parts rather than rely on them. I'm going to suggest it to him on their web page. If it already had SMTP settings for me to use my own server I would give it five stars right now. If they add that ability, I will change it to five stars But yeah these things are great. I got the remote temperature sensor right for my freezer after an incident where the freezer plug worked its way out after yours of hot cold, hot, cold, hot cold in the garage and I had no warning that my freezer was worn. Their remote temperature modules somehow gets through the metal of the freezer to the hub and onto my land with no problem. So whatever technology they're using it's really good. I'm looking forward to looking into the other sensors they have. I noticed they have a garage door opener that only works by finger print. That's a big concern of mine having the garage door opener on the sun visor of a car park in the highway. Some scumbag tweaker could break a window and push the button to open your garage to steal your tools. With that fingerprint sensor that would not work. That will probably be my next purchase.

Works great! Caught a thief in the act2 days after installing. Super easy to install.

This hub works exactly the way I wanted I recommend it this hub. Buy this in a bundle with other yolink sensors and save. ----------------------------------- Oh... here are a few details about Yolink sensors and hub you really do need to know. All yolink sensors of any type communicate with the hub and the hub communicates with the yolink server and the server communicates with your cell phone and the yolink app. You might think this is bad but I actually love it. Here is why. You link can send you a text or an email if a sensor is tripped. But if that text or email winds up on your phone how do you know it got there? Does your phone make some special beep when a yolink email comes in or a special sound when a yolink text comes in? As for the text I do know how to customize my text to make a special noise but I don't bother. Why don't I bother? Because I set the yolink app to "app only notification". Well ladies and gentlemen.... I found a notification reader app for my phone. It reads yolink notification out loud. Not text, not email but app notifications from the yolink app. It can be set to only read notification from any certain app you want and not from apps you don't want. Get this... it has a time delineation setting.... LOL your thinking WHAT? No it does not delineate time... It delineates THE time the app reads notifications out loud. Here is how I set it, I have it set so the app reader only reads yolink notifications at night. Not during the day time. My wife hates hearing it during the day and evening. During these times the notification make a small sound. I know to check the notification. My wife can't hear it. So get all that? Yolink could have an "in app reader" or "announcement" that could simply say out loud what sensor just got tripped. But yolink wants you to pay them for a text service that can send a lot of text to you. NO... you don't need that. Install the notification reader, it is called "voice notify" version 1.3.1, it is awesome. It truly completes the Yolink system and makes it what it truly should be. A way for your phone to tell you what door or window or yolink sensor just got tripped and it can happen while you are in your easy chair at home, or, in an airport on another continent on the other side of the planet.

The Yolink hub is the brain of the Yolink system. I have two kinds of hubs, one speaker hub and one eithernet hub. I've lost count of how many Yolink devices I have. These are a critical part of my overall home monitoring and security system. The speaker hub speaks, telling you what just happend, or warning you about what you forgot or need to look after. The same warnings are broadcadt to your cell phone. Their smoke detectors are by far best you can get, even sending a signal from a distant all metal building.

Super fácil de ser instalado. A conexão com o medidor de temperatura, distante à 10 metros - e com barreiras entre eles - se dá sem problema algum. A interface da Yolink é muito amigável. Valeu cada centavo.

This is only one of the line of YoLink products that we purchased and all of them are very reliable, easy to operate and recommended! This hub has zero issues all attachments recognized immediately very very long range signal coverage. I'm using YoLink devices for a bit more than half year and not regret. Very recommended!

La configuración no batallé con el cable ethernet, batallé un poco con el WiFi pero finalmente quedó configurado. Le conecté dos sensores de energía y lo reconoció de inmediato. La aplicación está muy intuitiva. Y buena calidad de los productos, el HUB, el cable de alimentación y el eliminador de corriente. Todo de excelente calidad. El Hub y 1 sensor los puse en la Oficina y el otro sensor de energía en la farmacia que queda a 1 cuadra de la oficina. Gran alcance.

No issues, easy to setup if you are reasonably decent with your tech skills.

Needed this to act as a hub for a smart thermometer which I had bought for monitoring freezer temperature. Installation was very simple using the free app. Range is great so there was no problem finding somewhere to have it sit out of the way. It supports multiple devices so can be used for other smart devices.