Hate paying for Google Home Premium? This smart home hub does the same things without a subscription

TL;DR Home security company Reolink announced its Home Hub 2 at IFA 2026.

The Home Hub 2 stores video feeds from up to eight security cameras locally and lets you search for key events using AI, with no subscription fee.

The Reolink Home Hub 2 is now going on sale for $199.99.

Both Google and Apple now offer home surveillance solutions that use AI to detect faces, pets, and vehicles. These services also summarize key events so you don’t have to sit through an entire day’s video. However, to be able to access these features, you must be subscribed to Google Home Premium or iCloud+, respectively, and that’s a monthly overhead not many people savor. Meanwhile, Reolink, a brand working dedicatedly on home security devices, also claims to offer similar AI-based detection features on its security cameras. …