H2 Smart Home Starter Kit — it’s That Easy to Make Your Home Smarter, Smart Home Startpaket, Gateway, Weather Sensor, Door and Window Detector

When I received this product I was pleasantly surprised at the packaging – the whole system came in a relatively small box. Once I opened it I saw the gadgets (weather sensor, motion sensor and gateway) My first impressions were how slick these products looked. I also had a door/window sensor.I had pre-installed the app via Google Play so was itching to get going. Once you open the app it’s really straight forward to add a device, you simply scan the QR code using your mobile phones camera, after a couple of seconds it recognizing the device and installs it to you phone. You then assign the device to a room in your house and give it a name. I started with the gateway which talks to all the devices, after installing this I then proceeded to get going with the other devices I had.I firstly installed the open/close sensor, again this was found via QR very quickly and installed, I assigned this item to my porch. I forgot to mention the box came with loads of fixing options. I wanted this sensor to go on my front door, I quickly added the sticky pad to the back of each piece and line them up on my door.As you can see from the pictures this sensor is very discreet, I even tested the discreteness of the product by not telling anyone who lived in my home about the new products to see if they noticed, up to now (after 3 days) no one has noticed them. This product works very well and I receive a notification each time the bond between the sensor is broken.I also installed the weather sensor, this currently isn’t positioned anywhere but on my windowsill in my kitchen, this sensor gives real time information on temperature, pressure and humidity.OverallI currently have a smart home that is pretty advanced, I have a smart thermostat, smart speakers, smart lights, smart radiator valves and this H2 system fits right in and adds something to my home which the other products haven’t. In the past I have had a motion sensor but that sensor was pretty bulky, this H2 sensor is light weight and very discreet. I would recommend these products to anyone who wishes to jump into the smart home world. The biggest compliment I could give the H2 system is the simplicity of the system, the set up and user interaction is very impressive.

This is a pretty good starter pack to get you going as it has everything you need to get up and running straight from the box with the main unit the Gateway Hub, one of the Open-and-Close Sensors and the Weather Sensor. This is certainly enough to get started and have a fair amount to play with to get used to everything but you will still need to add more bits and pieces to extend the functionality and benefit to the rest of your home - saying that, it's the perfect starter pack if you know you only want one sensor for a particular purpose initially. I did have a flick through and imagined installing it all as per the instructions but still preferred for my partner to do it as it would be him that would be most interested in it's running and maintenance (which there is actually very little of) and him who would be playing with the commands and data and adding to the system with extensions etc, but it did inspire me with the confidence that I could have installed this just as easily on my own including setting it up with the router. The App is pretty simple and equally easy to use and you just scan the codes from each piece in and I do really like the way you can monitor things with this! I've gone from be fairly disinterested initially to wanting to make everything Smart! Home security/monitoring whilst away is definitely the best feature in my book although I don't know how you can get alerts instead of checking on the phone, although the weather/temperature sensor is good for monitoring specific rooms too, such a s a nursery, and we've added a couple more sensors already and I'm now also much more into the Smart controls for the heating and appliance etc - the only trouble is it makes you quite lazy and adds another way of being stuck to your phone, especially as you have to go into the App to see what's going on - so it's another thing to obsess about/keep checking up on.We haven't had any problems with it and I think for the triple-set it's not bad value as I've been researching this a lot more now since having this for the past few weeks. The functions are mostly simple ones but these have been useful for us and I'm keeping an eye on new additions from H2 that we could add as and when needed.