Hearth is one hub that connects every light, lock, sensor, and thermostat you already own — then quietly learns your week. The heat is up before you wake. The doors lock when the last person leaves. The porch light is on before you ask. No app to tap, no routines to babysit, no server deciding whether your front door opens.
The smart home reviewers stopped fighting with
Most smart homes are five apps and a group chat about which one isn't working tonight. Hearth puts the whole house on one record — lights, locks, cameras, sensors, climate — and runs the logic that ties them together right on the device in your hallway.
Hearth watches the patterns that already exist — when you wake, when the house empties, when everyone's back — and starts handling them for you. No twelve-step routine builder. After about a week the house just runs on its own, and one tap overrides anything.
Matter, Thread, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, and the old bridge in your closet. Hearth speaks all of them at once, so the lamp from one brand and the lock from another finally cooperate — no rip-and-replace, no waiting for two companies to announce a partnership.
Millimeter-wave sensing knows a room is occupied even when you're sitting perfectly still reading — no more lights snapping off mid-chapter. The house responds to people, not motion, and to who's home, not just whether a door opened.
Good Morning eases the lights up and warms the kitchen. Goodnight locks every door, drops the thermostat, and arms the cameras in one move. Movie dims the room and mutes the doorbell. Build your own, or let Hearth offer the ones it's watched you do by hand.
Geofencing plus on-device presence lets Hearth tell a quiet house from an empty one. It won't lock you out for sitting still, and it won't leave the heat blasting for a house nobody's in — it saves energy without the second-guessing.
The automations live on the Hub, not in a far-away server. Storm knocks out your connection? Lights, locks, and schedules keep running exactly as they should. The cloud is for backup and remote access — never for whether your front door will open.
What a Hearth home looks like by month two
A house knows more about you than almost anything you own — who's home, when you sleep, what you watch. Hearth was built so that knowledge never leaves the building. The data lives on the Hub, the thinking happens on the Hub, and no ad model is quietly funded by your living room.
Presence, motion, and camera analysis run on the Hub's own chip. The footage and the patterns never have to touch a server to make a decision — what happens at home stays at home.
Person, package, and pet detection happen on-device. Clips are encrypted and stored locally by default; cloud backup is opt-in, end-to-end encrypted, and yours to wipe in one tap.
No ad network. No data brokers. No model trained on your household to sell you something later. Hearth makes money when you buy the hardware and the plan — that's the entire arrangement.
A clean local API plus HomeKit, Alexa, and Google support mean Hearth plays nicely with the assistants you already talk to — without handing them the keys to everything.
Hearth isn't a gadget for one corner of the house. It's the layer underneath all of them — coordinating the front door, the nursery, the garage, and the thermostat so they finally act like one home.
The last person out locks every door automatically. A familiar face at the porch lights the path; a stranger after dark starts recording and pings your phone — not the whole street's.
Air quality, temperature, and humidity watched continuously. The night-light fades up softly when the room stirs, and you get a gentle nudge — not a blaring alarm — if something drifts out of range.
The room warms before your alarm and eases back once the house empties. Leave a burner-adjacent sensor tripped too long and Hearth flags it before you've reached the car.
Drove off with the door open? Hearth notices the car is gone and the garage isn't shut, closes it for you, and then tells you it did.
Goodnight dims the house, drops the thermostat two degrees, and arms the cameras downstairs. Get up at 3 AM and the hallway glows just enough to see by — never enough to wake you the rest of the way.
Hearth eases heating, cooling, and standby devices down when nobody's around, and shows you exactly where the month's power went — room by room, in plain dollars.
“We had four apps and constant 'did you arm the cameras?' texts. Now the house just does it. My partner and I haven't talked about the thermostat in three months — it's the most boring smart home we've ever owned, and that's the highest praise I've got.”
“I bought it for the privacy and stayed for the bills. Everything runs on the Hub, the cameras don't ship my hallway to a server, and my heating dropped almost a fifth over the winter. It paid for itself before spring.”
“Our Wi-Fi died in an ice storm for two days and I didn't notice on the home side — lights, locks, and schedules never blinked. That's the moment I trusted it. A smart home that needs the internet to open a door isn't smart, it's a liability.”
The core of Hearth — local automation, presence, scenes, and device control — works forever with no subscription. A plan only adds remote access and cloud backup if you want them. We don't paywall the front door.
Everything the house needs to run itself.
For families who want it everywhere they go.
For large homes, properties, and pro installers.
Almost certainly. Hearth speaks Matter, Thread, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Wi-Fi at the same time and supports over 1,400 device models across the major brands. During setup the Hub scans your home and lists everything it can already see — most people connect their existing lights, locks, plugs, and thermostats without buying anything new.
No, and that's the point. Hearth watches the things you already do — the wake-up, the leave, the wind-down — and starts handling them on its own after about a week. You can fine-tune anything or build your own scenes, but the house works out of the box without you scripting a single rule.
It stays in your house. Presence, motion, and camera detection run on the Hub's own processor, and clips are encrypted and stored locally by default. There's no advertising business behind Hearth — we don't sell, broker, or train on your household data. Cloud backup is optional, opt-in, and end-to-end encrypted.
Your home keeps running. Every automation, scene, and schedule lives on the Hub, not in the cloud — so lights, locks, presence, and climate work normally with the connection out. The internet is only needed for remote access and optional cloud backup, never for the house itself to function.
Plug the Hub into power and your router, open the app, and follow the scan. Most homes are up and running in about twenty minutes — no hub-per-room, no rewiring, no electrician. Adding a device later is a thirty-second pairing, and the Hub suggests scenes for it automatically.
Never. The Hub does the real work — local automation, presence, scenes, device control, and local camera storage — with no subscription, forever. Hearth Plus only adds remote access from outside your home and longer cloud video retention for families who want them.
One Hub, twenty minutes, and a home that finally runs itself. Free returns for 60 days — if it doesn't feel like home, send it back.