The Eve Smart Home from the German manufacturer Eve Systems offers you all kinds of products for setting up a smart home. We’ll give you an overview.
The provider Eve Systems offers you a wide range of smart devices for indoors and outdoors. (Source: Eve Systems)
- Eve Smart Home: what is it and what does it offer?
Product range
Radio standards and compatibility
- What do I need to set up an Eve Smart Home?
Advantages and disadvantages
The Eve Smart Home is one of the many different smart home systems on the market that you can use to make your home smart. You can automate lighting, temperature control, security devices and more in your smart home and operate the devices of your choice centrally via your smartphone or via voice control.
The company behind Eve’s products is the German company Eve Systems, which has its headquarters in Munich. You have been able to buy the provider’s smart devices since 2014, which include smart thermostats and smart lamps.
Eve Smart Home: what is it and what does it offer?
With various smart devices, Eve offers everything you need to make your home future-proof. What does that mean? This allows you to operate many devices at home particularly conveniently, coordinate individual devices with each other and, in the best case, even save energy and therefore money. Some Eve devices make your home safer, others are used for entertainment or do housework for you.
Like many other smart home systems, Eve’s products can be connected to selected products from other providers. If you are looking for a smart home that also works offline, Eve is also the right place. You can connect most devices directly to each other locally, without the need for an internet connection.
Eve products at a glance You can also find smart roller shutters from the provider Eve Systems – even with an optional upgrade.
Eve offers many different smart home products that are also known from other manufacturers. If you want to heat cleverly, you will find good solutions in Eve’s smart thermostats, window and door contacts and air sensors. There are smart sockets as well as surveillance cameras, the so-called Eve Cams.
You can also ensure safety with the smart water detectors, which inform you in good time about water damage. Eve offers various smart lamps and light switches as well as its own roller shutter control and outdoor light camera.
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Speaking of outside: Since 2018, Eve has even offered its own smart irrigation system for the garden, Eve Aqua. With the Eve outdoor cameras and the smart weather station from Eve, you can even expand your smart home to include a “smart garden”. However, you won’t find a starter kit or a hub like other providers sell at Eve.
Supported wireless standards and compatible devices
Eve devices use either Apple HomeKit or Matter to communicate with other devices. Products that support these standards can therefore usually be easily integrated into an Eve Smart Home. Since Matter can be combined with Amazon Alexa, Google Home and Samsung Smart Things, popular products such as the Amazon Echo Dot or Google Nest speakers can also be integrated into the Eve setup.
Radio standards such as Bluetooth and WLAN are also used for communication, which are probably the most common types of networking. Since the setup is quite simple, Eve’s products are an ideal introduction for anyone who has previously had little to do with smart home technology.
What do I need to set up an Eve Smart Home?
Since Eve Systems says it does not use a bridge or hub, you can easily operate the devices of your choice individually. You don’t need any basic equipment, you can simply start with the devices that you would like to have in your smart home.
You can freely put together the devices for your Eve Smart Home. You don’t need a starter kit. (Source: netzwelt)
Once you have found at least one suitable device, all you have to do is set it up at home as described in the instructions and download the Eve app. You register it there and you’re done.
You can now control it via the app or set up voice control for selected devices. The Eve app is available free of charge for iOS. There is no official alternative for Android, but unofficial alternatives can be found in the Google Play Store that sometimes work more and sometimes less. Please note, however, that you always download and use such third-party solutions at your own risk.
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Remote control via Apple products
If you want to control your devices remotely, you will inevitably need a control center. Since Eve does not offer its own alternative in this regard, Apple’s products are used for this. This could be, for example, Apple TV, an Apple HomePod or the Apple HomePod Mini.
Individual Eve devices may also have certain requirements. We recommend that you take a look at the product description before purchasing or ask your trusted retailer about it.
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Advantages and disadvantages of the provider Eve Systems
The Eve Smart Home impresses above all with its easy operation and broad compatibility with other devices. In particular, the connection to the universal Matter standard is a big plus. The selection of devices is also impressive.
It is surprising, however, that Eve relies heavily on the connection to Apple HomeKit. This is probably why the provider only provides an app solution for iPhone and iPad. Android users have to resort to unofficial and usually significantly worse designed apps.
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The Eve Smart Home wants to impress above all with security and comfort solutions. However, you are more likely to find smart household and kitchen appliances such as vacuum robots from other providers. The Eve Smart Home is particularly recommended for beginners, especially if you already have one or two Apple devices at home.