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Hubitat Elevation C-8 Pro

Compiled by SmartHomeWorkflow Research · Hubitat · Hubs & Controllers · ~$184.95 (US (48 states) version at time of research — regional versions are separate SKUs)

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A connection can work while individual controls or automations remain unconfirmed. Read the connection details ↓

Protocols: ZWAVE · ZIGBEE · WIFI · MATTER · BLUETOOTH[1][4][13][20][26]

Before you buy

What do you need to make it work?

No hub for the device alone

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No — this device is the hub. Hubitat's own product page describes it as a Matter 1.5 controller with Zigbee 3.0 and Z-Wave 800 Long Range radios, which is what this record's provider block records.[11][20]

One device can provide more than one role. These are setup requirements, not a shopping list of separate purchases.

What could you do with this?

Put its functions to use.

Research, not hands-on testing

Start with a documented control or event. The selected connection shows what is confirmed for that platform.

We have not established a control or event to illustrate for this product. Check the connection and equipment information above.

A documented control or event is one part of a setup. It does not by itself establish a complete automation.

The functions, side by side

What can you use, and where?[12][20]

A platform connection does not confirm every function. Controls and reported events are shown separately from what an automation can use.

Controls
None documented by the vendor
Reported events
None documented by the vendor

Individual function comparisons are not available. The control and event summaries above distinguish an unanswered question from a documented absence.

Listed device functions are established from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished, not necessarily absent.

Connection details and setup sources
EcosystemSupportThe catch
Amazon AlexaWorksWorks with this ecosystem[5][21]Official Amazon Echo Skill, one-way (Hubitat devices out to Alexa only) and cloud-linked through your Hubitat account. Covers switches, dimmers, locks, fan/garage-door/shade controllers, thermostats, and contact/motion sensors; plain button devices are not supported.
Google HomeWorksWorks with this ecosystem[6][22]Official built-in Google Home app, one-way (Hubitat devices out to Google only) via Works-with-Google cloud account linking. The supported device list is narrower than Alexa's: switches, dimmers, thermostats, and RGB/RGBW/color-temperature bulbs — locks and sensors are not in Hubitat's supported list.
Apple HomePartialPartial support — see the catch[7][23]Via the free built-in HomeKit Bridge app, which is NOT certified (Apple Home shows a 'not a certified accessory' warning) and one-way (Hubitat devices out to Apple Home). Devices joined to Hubitat via Matter or Hub Mesh cannot be shared. The C-8 Pro's Matter support is controller-only — Hubitat states it is not a Matter bridge, so Matter is not the path into Apple Home.
SmartThingsInconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[8][9][28]Neither Hubitat nor Samsung offers an official way to put this hub's devices into SmartThings: Hubitat's own list of built-in integrations doesn't name SmartThings, though it does send its devices to Google Home and Apple Home. Community-built bridges exist, made and supported by their users rather than by either company, so we can't call this a yes or a no. The only official overlap is Matter, and a Matter device added to both hubs separately shares nothing between them.
Home AssistantInconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[10][24][27]Not established. Home Assistant ships no Hubitat integration and Hubitat does not name Home Assistant. Hubitat does document its own local control interface for connecting other systems, and community projects use it to link the hub to Home Assistant on your own network, but volunteers maintain them, not Hubitat or Home Assistant.

? Inconclusive means we researched that ecosystem and the evidence doesn’t settle it — the catch says why, and the sources are listed below. It is a statement about the available evidence, never a verdict on the product. A Setup Check researches your exact setup where the official sources don’t answer.

Plans and ongoing costs[3][20]

✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.

Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.

None required, and Hubitat says so in its own words: 'Hubitat does not require subscriptions for ongoing use.' Local control, automations and the dashboards all run on the hub itself. What money buys is optional and peripheral — extended warranty, secure cloud backup, and remote admin access. ⚠ Recorded as a limit: Hubitat's product page names these tiers without publishing their prices, so no figure is carried here rather than one being taken from a third party.

Maintenance and offline use[3]

The catch

Power without polish — the UI assumes you like reading documentation.

Who it's for

Z-Wave households wanting fast, local automations without full Home Assistant DIY.

Sources & method

Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →

29 numbered sources· read them in the source's own words
  1. [1] docs2.hubitat.com/en/apps/bluetooth-integration (read 2026-08-09): the built-in Bluetooth Integration app 'allows you to add compatible BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) devices to your hub'; 'This integration requires hub model C-8 Pro'; supports 'BTHome V2 format devices, with popular off-the-shelf products including most Shelly Bluetooth devices but also many DIY devices (although a compatible driver is required)'; the integration 'is currently in beta'. Hubitat release notes: BTHome V2 device support added for C-8 Pro hubs only in release 2.4.4.129 (February 2026). ⚠ Contrast recorded: hubitat.com's own C-8 Pro product page lists Bluetooth among the radios ('Matter 1.5, Z-Wave 800 Long Range, Zigbee 3.0, Bluetooth, Ring device integration, and LAN connections') without stating its purpose anywhere. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-09
    Backs: Protocols
  2. [2] hubitat.com/products/7194320273451 (read 2026-08-08): 'Hubitat Elevation® Model C-8 Pro US Version (48 States)', $194.95 USD; model C-8 Pro; radios listed as Zigbee 3.0, Z-Wave 800-series, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, with Matter controller capability. Sibling regional SKUs at /products/7194323058731 (North America), /7194322960427 (UK/IRL), /7194323255339 (Europe), /7194323714091 (AUS/NZ) — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-08
    Backs: Price, Product identity, Market availability
  3. [3] hubitat.com/products/7194320273451 (read 2026-08-08): 'Hubitat does not require subscriptions for ongoing use', with optional subscriptions named for extended warranties, secure cloud backups and remote admin access; no prices published for any of them on this page — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-08
    Backs: Subscription, Works without the internet, Power source, Installation, Service status, Research status
  4. [4] hubitat.com/products/7194320273451 — Matter 1.5 controller, Z-Wave 800 Long Range + Zigbee 3.0 + WiFi/Ethernet/Bluetooth; ~$160 — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-15
    Backs: Research status, Protocols
  5. [5] Hubitat official docs (docs2.hubitat.com/en/apps/amazon-echo-skill): 'Using the Hubitat Amazon Echo Skill app allows you to control switches, dimmers, door locks, fan controllers, garage door controllers, shade controllers, and thermostat devices. Supported sensors include contact and motion sensors.' One-way and cloud-account-linked per the same doc — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-21
    Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility
  6. [6] Hubitat official docs (docs2.hubitat.com/en/apps/google-home): 'Google Home supports switches, dimmers, thermostats, RGB, RGBW and ColorTemperature bulbs'; 'the reverse is not possible' — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-21
    Backs: Google Home compatibility
  7. [7] Hubitat official docs (docs2.hubitat.com/en/apps/homekit-integration): 'As this integration is currently not certified, you will receive a warning that Hubitat is not a certified accessory when adding it to HomeKit'; one-way, Matter/Hub Mesh devices excluded. Matter how-to (docs2.hubitat.com/en/how-to/use-matter): 'Hubitat is not a Matter bridge — it will not create Matter-compatible devices out of non-Matter devices you have added to your hub' — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-21
    Backs: Apple Home compatibility
  8. [8] Hubitat official built-in apps index (docs2.hubitat.com/en/apps — no SmartThings entry among ~50 built-in apps; negative evidence from the exhaustive official list, checked 2026-07-21). Hubitat's Matter how-to names SmartThings only as another Matter controller for multi-admin pairing — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-21
    Backs: SmartThings compatibility
  9. [9] Hubitat's 'Apps Documentation' index, re-read in full 2026-09-23 through the rendered rung (the plain read returned a 42-character shell; rendered text 2,993 characters, page last edited 08/02/2026). It lists about fifty built-in apps, including Amazon Echo Skill, Google Home, HomeKit Controller, HomeKit Bridge, Rachio, Ring and SharpTools, and SmartThings appears zero times. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-23
    Backs: SmartThings compatibility
  10. [10] Hubitat official docs (docs2.hubitat.com/en/apps/maker-api: 'Maker API is a simple HTTP API that allows you to retrieve the status of your authorized devices and send commands to them… useful for integrating Hubitat into other systems or applications that do not offer direct integration'); home-assistant.io/integrations/hubitat is not a live page (checked 2026-07-21) — Home Assistant ships no built-in Hubitat integration — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-21
    Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
  11. [11] This record's own sourced statement of what the hub provides: it acts as a Matter controller ("Matter 1.5 controller, per Hubitat's own product page"), a Zigbee hub ("Zigbee 3.0") and a Z-Wave hub ("Z-Wave 800 Long Range"), established 2026-07-15 from hubitat.com/products/7194320273451., verified 2026-08-19
    Backs: Required hub or bridge
  12. [12] hubitat.com's Elevation C-8 Pro product page, read 2026-08-20. Its stated function is local processing — "Automations run locally inside your home — not in the cloud" — across "1,000+ devices across 100+ brands without vendor lock-in", with a "Matter controller is available". Its hardware is enumerated: "Built-in Zigbee (Zigbee 3.0)" and "Built-in Z-Wave (800-series)" with external antennas and Z-Wave Long Range, Wi-Fi and Ethernet built in, Bluetooth, a 2.0 GHz processor and 2GB RAM. No sensor, speaker or independently controllable function of the hub appears in the enumeration. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Capabilities
  13. [13] This record's own sourced statement of what the hub can do, establishing the device as a Matter controller. Re-read 2026-08-20 against the settled definition of what counts as a protocol; no new outside page was opened., verified 2026-08-20
    Backs: Protocols
  14. [14] Hubitat, Elevation Model C-8 Pro product page — verbatim: "The Hubitat Elevation Model C-8 Pro features: Built-in Zigbee (Zigbee 3.0) External antennas · Built-in Z-Wave (800-series) Z-Wave LR External antennas · Matter controller is available · Wi-Fi connectivity built-in · Ethernet connectivity built-in". — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-02
    Backs: What it provides to your home
  15. [15] https://hubitat.com/products/7194320273451 and two docs2.hubitat.com integration pages (read 2026-09-09). The product page enumerates radios precisely — 'Internal Radios for both Zigbee and US frequency Z-Wave (908.4 MHz) each with External Antenna, built in Wi-Fi and Ethernet' — and gives the Z-Wave frequency while giving no Wi-Fi band, and no power specification. Both are left unrecorded because Hubitat does not publish them, not because nobody looked. ⊕ A vendor naming one radio's frequency and not another's is the clearest possible case for not inferring the missing one. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-09
  16. [16] the record's own customer-facing prose fields as they stood before 2026-09-10 (no new external read), verified 2026-09-10
  17. [17] https://hubitat.com/products/7194320273451 — Hubitat's own product page for the Elevation Model C-8 Pro, read browser-rendered 2026-09-12 (5,518 characters). Verbatim: 'The iOS and Android mobile app includes device control, dashboards, a presence sensor and management tools.' IDENTITY: the same page's Includes line reads 'A Hubitat Elevation® Model C-8 Pro Hub with Internal Radios for both Zigbee and US frequency Z-Wave (908.4 MHz) each with External Antenna, built in Wi-Fi, US 120V Power Supply, Ethernet cable', which is this record's C-8 Pro. The sentence is in the page body, not a site footer. — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-09-12
    Backs: App platforms
  18. [18] The C-8 Pro page above states Wi-Fi three times without a band: 'built-in Wi-Fi and Ethernet provide flexible connectivity', 'Wi-Fi connectivity built-in', and a comparison-table row reading only 'Internal Wi-Fi'. No 802.11 designation and no frequency, in what a reader sees or anywhere else in the page. The Wi-Fi band is left unrecorded because Hubitat does not publish it, not because nobody looked. — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-09-12
  19. [19] this record's own lifecycle note as it stood before 2026-09-17 (no new external read): its wording was rewritten so it reads in plain language. No fact, date, source or value changed, and the earlier wording is kept on this record., verified 2026-09-17
  20. [20] Hubitat's own C-8 Pro US (48 states) product page, read in full 2026-09-27 through tools/page-read.mjs (plain read, 5,251 characters), with a rendered read the same day showing the same price. Verbatim: "Hubitat Elevation ® Model C-8 Pro US Version (48 States)"; "Automations run locally inside your home — not in the cloud — so your smart home devices and security rules continue working even during internet disruptions."; "It supports Matter 1.5, Z-Wave 800 Long Range, Zigbee 3.0, Bluetooth, Ring device integration, and LAN connections"; "Includes: A Hubitat Elevation® Model C-8 Pro Hub with Internal Radios for both Zigbee and US frequency Z-Wave (908.4 MHz) each with External Antenna, built in Wi-Fi, US 120V Power Supply, Ethernet cable."; "Built-in Zigbee (Zigbee 3.0) External antennas Built-in Z-Wave ( 800 -series) Z-Wave LR External antennas Matter controller is available Wi-Fi connectivity built-in Ethernet connectivity built-in"; "Hubitat does not require subscriptions for ongoing use."; "Optional subscriptions offer extended warranties, secure cloud backups, and remote admin access."; "Connect Apple HomeKit, Google Home or Amazon Alexa voice assistants"; "The iOS and Android mobile app includes device control, dashboards, a presence sensor and management tools."; and, under 'Choose a region' with 'US (48 states)' selected, "184.95 USD Add To Cart". No struck-through, 'was' or sale figure appears in either read. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-27
    Backs: Price, Product identity, Market availability, Service status, Subscription, Works without the internet, Power source, Installation, Protocols, What it provides to your home, Required hub or bridge, Capabilities, App platforms, Research status
  21. [21] Hubitat's 'Amazon Echo Skill' documentation, read in full 2026-09-27 (rendered, 9,236 characters, last edited 08/27/2026). Verbatim: "Using the Hubitat Amazon Echo Skill app allows you to control switches, dimmers, door locks, fan controllers, garage door controllers, shade controllers, and thermostat devices. Supported sensors include contact and motion sensors."; "The reverse direction is not possible: devices that have been added to Alexa cannot be directly shared from Alexa to your Hubitat Elevation hub"; "Enter your Hubitat account username and password"; "To name one example, "plain" button devices are not supported by the Amazon Echo Skill app." — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-27
    Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility
  22. [22] Hubitat's 'Google Home' documentation, read in full 2026-09-27 (rendered, 3,113 characters, last edited 12/25/2025). Verbatim: "Google Home supports switches, dimmers, thermostats, RGB, RGBW and ColorTemperature bulbs."; "This integration allows Google Home to control switches, dimmers, thermostats, and bulbs that have been joined to your Hubitat Elevation hub, but the reverse is not possible."; "Select Works with Google. Search for and select Hubitat." — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-27
    Backs: Google Home compatibility
  23. [23] Hubitat's 'HomeKit Bridge' documentation, read in full 2026-09-27 (rendered, 6,222 characters, last edited 05/28/2026). Verbatim: "Note that this integration is one-way: Hubitat devices can be shared to Apple Home."; "As this integration is currently not certified, you will receive a warning that Hubitat is not a certified accessory when adding it to HomeKit."; "Devices shared via Hub Mesh are not supported on linked hubs"; "Devices added to Hubitat via Matter are not supported"; "This integration does not allow selecting more than 150 devices to share to HomeKit from a single hub". — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-27
    Backs: Apple Home compatibility
  24. [24] Hubitat's 'Maker API' documentation, read in full 2026-09-27 (rendered, 11,335 characters, last edited 03/18/2026). Verbatim: "Maker API is a simple HTTP API that allows you to retrieve the status of your authorized devices and send commands to them. This API can be useful for integrating Hubitat into other systems or applications that do not offer direct integration."; "http://[hub_ip_address]/apps/api/[app_id]/[endpoint_path]?access_token=[access_token] for local endpoints"; "A Maker API instance can be configured to allow LAN-only access, cloud-only access, or both." Home Assistant publishes no page for a Hubitat integration at its own address, home-assistant.io/integrations/hubitat, read the same day (recorded on the context entry beside this one). — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-27
    Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
  25. [25] home-assistant.io/integrations/hubitat, read 2026-09-27 through tools/page-read.mjs as a status read: the address returns Home Assistant's "Oh no! This page does not exist" page., verified 2026-09-27
  26. [26] Hubitat's 'Bluetooth Integration' documentation, read in full 2026-09-27 (rendered, 3,027 characters). Verbatim: "The built-in Bluetooth Integration app allows you to add compatible Bluetooth devices to your hub. This integration requires hub model C-8 Pro."; "Please note that this integration is currently in beta."; "At the moment, the integration supports BTHome V2 format devices and A2DP speakers." — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-27
    Backs: Protocols
  27. [27] Hubitat's 'Maker API' documentation, read in full (rendered) on 2026-10-03: "Maker API is a simple HTTP API that allows you to retrieve the status of your authorized devices and send commands to them. This API can be useful for integrating Hubitat into other systems or applications that do not offer direct integration." The page does not name Home Assistant. — Re-checked this against its sources, verified 2026-10-03
    Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
  28. [28] Hubitat's 'Apps Documentation' index, read in full on 2026-10-11 (rendered, 2,993 characters, last edited 08/02/2026). Verbatim: "Integrations connect your hub to external devices, services, or platforms (e.g., the Hue Bridge Integration app allows integration of Hue Bridge devices into Hubitat over your LAN, and the Google Home app allows exposing Hubitat devices to Google Home)." The list names Amazon Echo Skill, Google Home and HomeKit Bridge among about sixty apps; SmartThings appears zero times, and Hub Link and Link to Hub sit under Retired Apps. — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-10-11
    Backs: SmartThings compatibility
  29. [29] A SmartThings community forum thread by a community developer, read in full on 2026-10-11 (11,470 characters). Verbatim: "Mira is a SmartThings Edge driver that allows devices on a local Hubitat Elevation hub to be “mirrored” back to SmartThings.", verified 2026-10-11Someone's observation, checked 2026-10-11This fact comes from an owner, a forum or a community project rather than from the manufacturer. Last checked 2026-10-11.

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