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Anker's New MindBase Home Hub Runs AI Locally, Doubles as NAS

Anker today announced the launch of Anker MindBase, an AI home hub meant to work with almost 100 Anker devices and Matter-enabled smart home devices from other companies. It works alongside HomeKit, and is equipped with an AI Core compute card and the on-device Anker TrueSmart AI Agent.

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In addition to working as a smart home hub, the MindBase supports up to 48TB of local storage, and it functions as a NAS. It can be used for storing files, photos, and videos locally. MindBase integrates with Anker security cameras, and Anker plans to sell a MindBase Security Kit that includes a new TrackLight Cam S1, S4 Video Doorbell, and Smart Security Shield sensor.

Anker says on-device AI evaluates events in real time to assess risk and respond through observation, lighting, verbal warnings, or active deterrence. The sensor can be placed at the edge of a property, using radar to detect strangers from up to 15 meters away.

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Anker is also debuting several new home security products.

  • Eufy Video Doorbell S4 - The Video Doorbell S4 is a wired doorbell and security camera combo. It has a 9-megapixel lens with 3K resolution and a 180-degree field of view.
  • Eufy Window Camera E10 - The E10 is a camera that mounts on the inside of a window for use in rentals. It has a 25-degree adjustable tilt with anti-glare optics, and it records in 2.5K resolution.
  • Eufy Fall Detection Sensor - The Fall Detection Sensor is a non-wearable sensor that uses mmWave radar sensing to detect falls without using a camera. It can be mounted on the wall and supports two-way communication.
  • Eufy NVR Security System E50 - The E50 pairs an 8-channel network video recorder with four hybrid bullet pan-tilt-zoom dual-lens camera. There's a 2K resolution wide-angle bullet lens and a motorized 4K resolution PTZ lens.

The E50 system is available on the Eufy website starting at $999. The Video Doorbell S4 is priced at $300 and will be available in late September. The Window Camera E10 will be available later this year for $70. Availability and pricing have not yet been announced for the MindBase and Fall Detection Sensor.

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Top Rated Comments

Slo Pesci Avatar
16 hours ago at 01:43 am
it'll be a cold day in hell before I install Anker AI on any device I own.
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
16 hours ago at 02:03 am
I might not be bright enough to get the point of this. I need a 1000$to run my 400$ doorbell, to put it into HomeKit and hope they never end software support for it because I to put literally everything on this?
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Kriss_De_Valnor Avatar
15 hours ago at 03:36 am
Seriously... could someone explain to me why suddenly some people have this need to run AI models in their phones, fridges, laundry machines and door bells. For what? To ask them what the weather is like? Seriously.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Jakol Avatar
15 hours ago at 03:01 am
Just another trash preventing normal people from buying RAM at reasonable prices.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
14 hours ago at 03:48 am

I have no desire or need for this “hub” (MindBase). If I had one positive thing to say about Anker regarding this device, it would be that at least they (unlike some others) recognized that the idea of a “home hub” alone won’t sell it, so they at least piggybacked additional NAS functionality that some may find useful.
A while back I made a post on the Apple TV forum here saying that one feature I would really like on the next Apple TV is a USB port so that an external drive could be plugged in and it could also act as a NAS (with appropriate support added to TvOS). I was surprised at the amount of derision that came back - one poster responding with "these feature requests are getting crazier and crazier". I didn't bother arguing back but I never quite understood why the idea that if you have a permanently connected device in your home anyway - in this case this Anker hub and in the context of my post an Apple TV - it wouldn't be considered a nice extra feature to be able to use it as a NAS.

I'm reading your post and thinking that maybe I'm not as crazy as some of those posters on the Apple TV forum said I was. Maybe people thought that I was wanting an Apple TV to act as some heavy duty database or web server. I was assuming that anyone using such functionality would realise it was a very lightweight device and load it accordingly.

If Apple ever offer that functionality pretty much all I would ever use it for would be as a backup target so after the initial full backup I doubt the network traffic from incremental changes on my Mac would average much more that about 50 to 100 MB per hour and pretty much by definition when I'm watching the TV there would be no files changing on my Mac so the NAS traffic would be zero.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
attila Avatar
16 hours ago at 02:37 am
But why?
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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