Another good and easier hack to get into a Wink Hub. Wink has alot of hardware promise due to all the radio signal types it can handle. but its limited in device support. So hacking it could be a good alternative to add in your own support. The last link has some interesting comments on this too.
http://hackaday.com/2015/01/05/a-better-way-to-hack-the-wink/
http://arahuman.blogspot.com/2014/11/how-to-root-your-wink-hub-step-by-step.html
http://www.dinnovative.com/?p=348
https://github.com/nashira/blink
UPDATE:
hackaday has a new varient of this up
http://hackaday.com/2015/01/08/using-the-wink-hub-with-openhab/