# Home Hub

A pre-built device that connects your HVAC, water heater, EV charger and battery to one optimized schedule. Currently in beta.

The Home Hub is a pre-built device that connects your HVAC, water heater, EV charger and battery to one optimized schedule. The optimizer builds tomorrow's plan every night; the Hub runs it on its own hardware.

> **Caution: Beta list, not yet shipping**
>
> The Home Hub is built and tested as a unit, but it isn't on sale yet — there's no price and no order page. Join the [beta list](https://hungrymachines.io/beta/home-hub) to hear when it's ready.

Below is what ships with the first units. The Hub is factory-provisioned before it reaches you, so there's genuinely little else to read; deeper reference material lands once units are in customers' hands.

## What's in the box

One small appliance, plugged into power and your network. Inside, it runs a full home-automation stack that we assemble, test and update as a single unit: the engine that reaches your Z-Wave and Matter devices, a local broker so a [Satellite](/satellite/) in the same house can attach to it instead of connecting on its own, and our own interface on top. You never see or manage that stack directly — the Hub presents its own dashboard, not a home-automation platform for you to learn.

## First boot

The Hub arrives already set up for your account. There's no onboarding wizard to click through and no integrations to install — plug it into power and your network, and it starts running. From there, connecting your machines to it is the same one-time step every route uses; see [Choose your path](/getting-started/).

## The kiosk client

Touchscreen units boot straight into the Hub's own dashboard, full-screen — the same screen you'd reach from a phone or laptop on the network. Headless units skip the touchscreen and use that same dashboard from any device.

## Keeping it updated

Nothing on the Hub updates itself piece by piece, and there's no plugin store on it to manage. When we ship a change, it goes out as one tested bundle for the whole box, the same way the Hub arrived — one update authority, one thing to trust.

For the product overview, see **[hungrymachines.io/home-hub](https://hungrymachines.io/home-hub)**.

Canonical page: https://docs.hungrymachines.io/home-hub/