On March 21, Xiaomi's official website listed the crowdfunding page of Xiaomi Central Gateway, showing that this product will officially open crowdfunding on March 23, with a crowdfunding price of 309 yuan.
As a product that adds the word "hub" to the name, Xiaomi Hub Gateway adopts a unique "professional-grade Bluetooth Mesh Gateway" and Bluetooth signal amplifier, which can connect 200 Bluetooth Mesh devices and 100 Bluetooth devices at the same time, in other words, this is a gateway product that can support more device connections.
In addition, it also has a local hub architecture design, when the devices in the same LAN of a single home are centered on a central gateway, they can quickly and stably localize linkages, and implement "pre-preset automation scenarios" when the extranet is abnormal.
In order to achieve these functions, the Xiaomi Hub Gateway is also equipped with a quad-core processing chip and 4GB of storage space, bringing more space for future OTA upgrades.
In addition to the general concept of WiFi connection (supporting 2.4GHz and 5GHz dual screen connection) and Bluetooth connection, Xiaomi Hub Gateway also supports RJ45 limited network port direct connection (network port only supports 100Mbps, which is enough for smart homes), making the connection more efficient and stable. However, it is worth noting that it cannot directly connect to the devices of the ZigBee protocol, and requires other gateway products to be intermediaries.
Considering the price of this product of 349 yuan and the starting price of 309 yuan, in general, its cost performance is still good, for smart home products are very many friends, it is still worth starting. Of course, for the general small family, it is more suitable for products such as the "Xiaomi Intelligent Multi-mode Gateway" previously released.