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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-17SwitchBot Hub 3
⚠ Similar names, different products: Not the SwitchBot AI Hub, which is a different and much more expensive product sold beside it — the AI Hub is $259.99 to this one's $119.99 and does a different job. Also distinct from the older Hub Mini, which SwitchBot still lists.
Exactly which product this is[1]
- Model number
- Not established
- Generation
- Not established
- Region this page covers
- US
- Also sold or listed as
- 810150544053
“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.
Compatibility
| Ecosystem | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Alexa | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[1] | Not established from what we read, and deliberately not assumed from SwitchBot's wider reputation. The product description names Apple Home, Home Assistant and Fire TV as destinations for its Matter bridging and does not name Alexa in that list — but SwitchBot's storefront copy is marketing prose rather than a compatibility table, which is the same reason we refuse to read a short marketing list as a complete one. We read no Alexa statement for this model, so the question stays open rather than becoming a no or an inherited yes. |
| Google Home | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[1] | Same position as Alexa: we read no Google statement for this specific model, and the maker's marketing description is not a complete platform list. Recorded as unknown. |
| Apple Home | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[1] | Claimed by SwitchBot in its own words and with the mechanism named, which is why this cell is stronger than its siblings: 'Bridge your SwitchBot devices to Apple Home or Home Assistant with Matter'. The path is Matter bridging rather than a native HomeKit accessory — meaning your SwitchBot curtains and sensors appear in the Home app through this box, and what appears is limited to what Matter's device types can express. |
| SmartThings | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[1] | Not established. SwitchBot's description for this hub names Apple Home, Home Assistant and Fire TV without mentioning SmartThings, and no per-model statement was found in either direction. ⚠ Worth knowing generally rather than assuming here: a Matter bridge is in principle reachable by any Matter controller, SmartThings included — but 'in principle' is not evidence, and this catalogue does not publish protocol theory as a compatibility claim. |
| Home Assistant | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[1] | Named directly by SwitchBot, on the same line and by the same mechanism as Apple Home: 'Bridge your SwitchBot devices to Apple Home or Home Assistant with Matter'. That is unusually explicit — most vendors on this shelf leave Home Assistant unmentioned — though as with Apple, what crosses over is bounded by what Matter's device types can express, not by what the SwitchBot app can do. |
? 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.
Protocols: WIFI · MATTER · BLUETOOTH · INFRARED[1][5]
What it can do[4]
You can tell it to
Not established — we could not confirm this from vendor documentation
It reports
- Temperature reading
- Humidity reading
Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.
Subscription reality[1]
✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.
Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.
No plan is named anywhere in SwitchBot's own product content for this hub — bridging, scenes, IR control and the sensor readouts are the product, not a tier of it. Worth contrasting with the AI Hub one record over, where SwitchBot's own description names a '$4.99/month' service after a free trial: two hubs from one vendor, one with a recurring cost and one without.
Maintenance reality
- Works without the internet: Not established — we have not sourced this yet. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
- Mains device meant to stay powered — it is the bridge everything else in a SwitchBot household depends on, so unplugging it takes the rest of the system offline. Physically it is a panel rather than a puck at '126 × 94 × 38 mm (4.96 × 3.70 × 1.50 in.)' and 190 g, because it carries a screen, custom buttons and what SwitchBot calls a 'Dial Master™' — it is designed to be seen and touched on a wall or nightstand, not hidden behind a router.
- Security updates: SwitchBot states its security-update commitment for this model as a period rather than a date: 2 years of software update support, counted from launch — SwitchBot states the period as a rule but publishes an end date for only one product, which is not this one (the document this comes from names no country, so which markets it legally covers is not stated). That is a floor measured from a starting point the manufacturer sets — a launch or a purchase — rather than a fixed end date, so it cannot be placed on a calendar here. We record the commitment as the manufacturer states it, in our words, rather than converting it into a date it did not give. This is a published commitment, not a gap in our research.[3]
The catch
It is a 2.4 GHz-only device by SwitchBot's own requirement, which is ordinary for a hub but worth knowing if your network segregates bands. The bigger thing to understand before buying is what Matter bridging actually delivers: your SwitchBot devices reach Apple Home and Home Assistant through this box, but only as far as Matter's device types can describe them — features that live in the SwitchBot app may simply have no equivalent on the other side. And SwitchBot's own platform list here names Apple Home, Home Assistant and Fire TV without naming Alexa, Google or SmartThings; that is marketing copy rather than an enumeration, so those three cells are honestly unknown rather than confirmed either way.
Who it's for
A household already accumulating SwitchBot's Bluetooth gadgets — curtains, locks, meters, buttons — that wants them reachable from Apple Home or Home Assistant, plus a physical dial and buttons for the scenes it uses most. The IR blaster is the quiet bonus: it gives old air conditioners and TVs a smart-home presence they were never built for.
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 →
- [1] us.switch-bot.com, structured storefront endpoint for the SwitchBot Hub 3 — vendor structured-endpoint read (Shopify .js), verified 2026-08-17Backs: Product identity, Price, Protocols, Wi-Fi bands it can use, Power source, Installation, Required hub or bridge, Subscription, Market availability, Service status, Research status, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility, Home Assistant compatibility
- [2] This catalogue's own hub-edge data, swept 2026-08-19 against the 111 manufacturer records in src/data/manufacturers/. — join-key normalization (BQ-200, R-5 decision 1), verified 2026-08-19
- [3] SwitchBot's own Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (www.switch-bot.com/pages/switchbot-vulnerability-disclosure-policy), read in full 2026-08-20. The commitment, verbatim: "We will deliver an updated experience for you on a regular basis including updated security patches. The period of software update support is 2 years, see the table below for details." The table it points to contains exactly ONE row — "SwitchBot Floor Cleaning Robot S10 | 2023/10/16 | 2025/12/31" — under the headings "Product Name", "Launch Date" and "End date of software update support". The same policy publishes remediation targets rather than a support horizon: "critical and high-risk vulnerabilities will be fixed within three working days, high-risk vulnerabilities within 0.5 months, medium-risk vulnerabilities within one month, and low-risk vulnerabilities within four months", with reports to security@switch-bot.com. Rungs walked per method note 69: (a) no SwitchBot regulatory-declaration library (UK PSTI / EU CRA) could be located — a first-party search surfaced only per-product FCC "Safety and Compliance Information" articles, which carry no support period; (b) answered by this policy page; (c) the product's own page sits on `us.switch-bot.com`, a registered refusing host, and was not reachable this pass. — vendor policy-page research (BQ-192 security-support sweep, method note 69 rungs a–c), verified 2026-08-20Backs: Security-update support period
- [4] switch-bot.com's Hub 3 product page, read 2026-08-20: the device offers "Real-Time Home Monitoring" and can "Track room temperature, humidity, and CO₂ in real time", with the specification qualifying the third of those — "(Meter Pro CO2 is required)". The hub also provides IR control of other devices and supports Matter for managing "SwitchBot and third-party Matter devices". — vendor + ecosystem-documentation research (BQ-187 capabilities population, the `hubs` shelf), verified 2026-08-20Backs: Capabilities
- [5] This record's own sourced `provides` block, establishing the device as a Matter controller. Re-read 2026-08-20 against the ruled definition of `protocols`; no new external source was fetched. — protocols-definition sweep (BQ-222 batch 2; ruling §1 of docs/decisions/2026-08-20-RULINGS-SITTING.md), verified 2026-08-20Backs: Protocols
- [6] SmartHomeWorkflow record maintenance (BQ-250 securitySupport.region backfill) — internal-review of the document this record already cites, verified 2026-08-27
- [7] SwitchBot, Hub 3 product page — verbatim: "Matter-Compatible Control Across Brands — Effortlessly manage SwitchBot and third-party Matter devices like Hue and IKEA lights." · "Smart Home Hub with Apple Home & Home Assistant Support — Bridge your SwitchBot devices to Apple Home or Home Assistant with Matter." · "Control 30+ devices, create advanced scenes, and enable IR compatibility — all through Hub 3." · "Supports 30 sub-devices as a Matter Bridge". Specification row, verbatim: "Connectivity Mode 802.11b/g/n, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy". — vendor-page research (BQ-319 provides sweep — first-party re-read through tools/lib/gated-fetch.mjs), verified 2026-09-02Backs: What it provides to your home
- [8] the record's own customer-facing prose fields as they stood before 2026-09-06 (no new external read) — consumer-translation pass (07 §2A.12) — customer-facing prose rewritten to the three-layer rule; NO FIELD VALUE, LEVEL, PATH OR TRANSPORT CHANGED. The research trail that used to sit inside those fields is preserved here verbatim., verified 2026-09-06
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