Cottage Haven Hub

Most smart-home hubs are thin clients for someone else's server. When the internet hiccups or the company pivots, your lights and locks go with it. The Haven Hub takes the opposite stance: everything runs locally, on your network, in your home.

The payoff is immediate — literally. Automations fire without a cloud round-trip, so a motion sensor triggering a light feels instant rather than merely quick. When our connection dropped during testing, the house kept working exactly as before.

Privacy is treated as a feature rather than a footnote, with documentation that explains, in plain language, what stays on the device. The trade-off is a smaller integration list at launch and a setup process that rewards patience. For anyone who wants a home that answers to them alone, it is worth it.