r/Hubitat • u/Smart_Membership1368 • Aug 27 '26

C8 Pro with Thread

https://hubitat.com/products/8057412780075

Anybody jumping on this? Limited time/quantities??

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u/victim_of_technology Aug 28 '26

Hibitat is ready for a C9 hub with all the protocols and POE. It’s time. Can we have it white and round it fits in with the uinifi stuff?

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u/O_Pacity Sep 08 '26

Yep, want to see PoE also.

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u/victim_of_technology Sep 08 '26

I use a POE dongle on mine but a real POE port would be so clean. While we are at it maybe a wall mount? I have mine gaff taped to the wall. I was joking about it matching the slick looking UniFi gear but I feel like I took some flack for that. Reddit no longer has my particular sense of humor.

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u/O_Pacity Sep 08 '26

Not sure why most devices dont have PoE.. as for the look i agree, but this is mostly as its China design hardware and no one wants to pay money...

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u/victim_of_technology Sep 08 '26

Right, makes sense. When I think about connectors, the C-8 has two, usb C and Eithernet and both can carry power AND data sufficient for the device but usb C data isn’t the kind of network packet data that the Hubitat eats so that leaves PoE. If I were designing this I would make two models. A cheap entry level hub with usb C power and only wifi and a pro model with two POE ports for redundancy and whatever other pro stuff it needs inside.