Starling Home Hub 4+

I’ve got a fairly complicated HomeKit setup and for reasons that anyone else maintaining a dual HomeKit/Nest environment understands, I’d be loath to try and replace my Nest devices with native HK gear, where even realistically possible, Google ownership notwithstanding. I’ve used HomeBridge, Home Assistant and numerous custom hacks over the years to tie everything together, with all the hair pulling that sometimes entails. My Starling hub is the one device which has literally *never* failed to work as advertised. In a changing world of HK improvements and slow Nest devolution (thx, Google), Starling firmware updates and feature improvements have been frequent and timely, so much so that I’ve literally bought several new Nest products long after committing to HomeKit. My only consistent ask would’ve been a native app for configuration. 🙂 Here it is and it seems to work perfectly. Bravo, Starling LLC. Way to stay on top of your game over the years!

Starling Home Hub has been a fantastic product that I’ve now used for over a year and never had an issue with. Even when I added a second Home to Nest for my parents, I was able to get it all working with a second Starling Hub at the parents house and properly segregate everything so they only have access in HomeKit to their home Nest cameras.

Hats off to the team for really putting a great product together and an app that allows for the proper customization for different scenarios.

This product is one of those few random tech things that really is just magic. It just works and works as promised. I have a lot of homekit products and google products.

Firmware upgrades have just happened drama free without me knowing. Really impressed with the engineering behind this.

I'm curious if this product has a long term purpose with the agreed Matter protocol, but thats in the future. For now, if you want to control your nest thermostats from mac home app or siri. This is the best way.