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SwitchBot's AI Hub is messy – but its AI Art Frame is cool (review)

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SwitchBot sent me its AI Hub, two Pan/Tilt Cam Plus 3K cameras, and its AI Art Frame for review. SwitchBot makes seemingly anything and everything for smart-home integration, from door locks and curtain pullers to robot vacuums, cameras and even humanoid-ish robots.

So what, exactly, is this little US$260 AI Hub? SwitchBot advertises it as the world's first home AI agent with OpenClaw support, designed to use cameras as its "eyes" and smart devices as its "hands" to spot what's happening around the house and automatically respond. It's pitched as a local smart-home brain that can analyze camera feeds, run automations and tie everything together with Home Assistant or just in the app itself. It also supports Frigate and up to eight 2K SwitchBot or third-party RTSP cameras.

Keeping my data local – like video feeds – is what I was most attracted to, considering I'm a bit of a...

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