SwitchBot has basically turned into a “we’ve got everything” smart home brand—curtains, cameras, motion sensors, locks, plugs, the little FingerBot… the whole deal. In this video I run through a bunch of their gear they sent over (and yeah, they sponsored a small segment, but the opinions are mine). I focus on what’s actually useful, what’s just “okay,” and what feels like SwitchBot finally moving in the right direction for people like us who live in Home Assistant. The fun stuff: FingerBot is a super practical way to make dumb things smart (like a light switch) without rewiring anything, and the Curtain Bot is an easy retrofit to automate curtain routines. Their cameras look nice enough in the app for the average person (I use one to check on my dogs), but they’re not chasing 4K/HDR perfection—and no RTSP is still a sticking point for me. The biggest takeaway is the new HomeKit-enabled smart plug. Once I set it up in the SwitchBot app, it showed up in Home Assistant automatically, which is honestly sick. Power monitoring shows in the SwitchBot app but not in Home Assistant (bummer), but if SwitchBot follows through with a HomeKit-enabled hub and lock, we might be looking at a future where a lot more SwitchBot devices “just work” in Home Assistant.