YoLink Local Hub

The YoLink local hub is great to be able to integrate wireless sensors into your own products or projects. Commands are easy and I was able to integrate wireless temperature and door sensors to update my door control system and show the statuses of these sensors without having to use hardwired technology which makes setup and install much easier.

There's a bit of a learning curve for getting it setup and found out after purchase that it's mutually exclusive between the local hub and my pro hub... which isn't ideal but I'm still really happy to have local API access to my devices without having to go through a cloud.

Installation of the Local Hub was straightforward. All 4 motion sensors, 18 leak sensors, and 1 water shutoff valve were added easily using the app. I disconnected my internet cable and all devices were visible and could be controlled via their connection to the local network.

I will say as far as working it seems rock solid. I didn't have any issues with my Speaker Hub, I just wanted it all local. I would add some caveats for setup though (And the reason it's getting 4 not 5 stars), figuring out how to migrate from a non-local Yolink network to the local one could be a little better documented. Figuring out you have to go into the hub, then local network to move things was not clearly explained.
Secondly for home assistant you have to change plugins. Not a huge thing, just takes some googling.
Would I do it again, yes I would, the hub is solid, and I don't worry about the internet going down. Better migration instructions is my complaint.

Last year I placed a review expressing some of my frustrations that came with an early purchase when the hub was released. Though some limitations may still apply as far as what is exposed to Matter specifically in Home Assistant, this should be considered with certain devices, YoLink has not been sitting still in making improvements. I hope that enough people make the investment to keep the project worthwhile for the developers. I can say that there was a quirk at the time of my early purchase in getting things set up but YoLink support was very helpful in getting it resolved quickly. The hub itself has been very consistent in it's performance over the course of a year. It works quite well I must say. Home assistant users who want local control should not hesitate to add this to their device collection. I have used my Wifi to block internet access to the hub and everything continues to operate in HA Matter as expected. Thank you for following through with this, YoLink. Please keep the local development going so we can have full device support across the board in Matter. It took a while, but you delivered on the promise, this is great!