wondering whether or not your favorite smart home maker has a brand new product
coming or out on the market already I'm here today to give you all the latest in
2019 all the newest smart home products let's go our first product is the Google
Nest hub max now this has been announced since Google i/o but Google has
accidentally put up on their website that it would be available September 9th
coupled with that have been a number of FCC filings that make it look like we're
about to get a replacement for either the Google home or the Google home Mini
and I get this question all the time what do I think this device is more like
the nest guard or a combination of the nest guard and a Google home standard
device so I do think Google is going to replace that product it looks a little
old to me at this point and they need to integrate the thread hub capability
Samsung also put out a trio of smart home products so the first one was a
Samsung SmartThings cam integrates with your SmartThings products $90 US only
sold in the US right now and has a free cloud storage option as well as a paid
cloud storage option now they also put out a ZigBee bulb that looks feels and
smells just like a Sengled Elements ZigBee bulb they also put out a Wi-Fi
smart thing smart plug so it integrates with SmartThings but it is a Wi-Fi
version of their smart plug everybody's favorite and most expensive light bulbs
in the world are the Philips Hue bulbs now what Philips has done is try to
remove the entryway point here of needing the bridge this is a confusing
thing for a lot of people I know you Automaters probably get this very
simply they need a bridge because it's a ZigBee bulb but a lot of people don't
understand that and so what they did is they put bluetooth into their bulbs and
that removes the need for a hub now what I'll tell you is don't go do this don't
go buy into this it is an entry point the intention is that yeah you're not
getting all the smart home functions that you normally would with Philips and
their hub or their bridge you're able to start kind of automating
your home in a simple way mostly you're gonna have control through a smartphone
now just trying out my new peeve oh here this is a bit of a different camera
system and actually does a little bit of face tracking you can see as I move the
device is actually following me now what I want to tell you about today is called
smart dry now I've been reviewing a few products here and there for companies I
kind of provide written reports and this product has been very interesting it's a
very different product now smart dry goes inside your dryer it has a couple
of magnets there on the back you can see and it just sticks on the inside and it
tells you through its three onboard sensors what the temperature is and
whether or not your clothes are dry and then also it'll tell you when the dryer
has actually stopped running so it only really integrates with a smartphone at
this point it has a little bit of integration with Amazon's voice
assistant but overall I've been very impressed with this device and my
feedback that's gone back to the folks at connected life labs it's called you
know they've been very receptive and appear to have great things on their
product development path so really interesting and very different product
here now moving on to the wise bulbs they are the eight dollar US temperature
controllable bulbs from wise that pair with their smart cameras and they're
wise sense sensor systems you can go ahead and now buy those as part of the
general public in the u.s. of course they're smart scale continues to show up
in different reports it does look like that product is going to come to market
although there's been no confirmation of that product yet what they did confirm
from wise is a brand new smart plug that as this video is released will be
available on the wise app and on wise comm for pre-order now I can't tell you
what the price is you have to go look for yourself the Nvidia shield TV which
is a lot of people's favorite streaming device is getting a upgrade or a new
device here it looks like there's filings at the FCC for that new product
that includes eight to 11ac on board so that's 2.4 and 5
gigahertz Wi-Fi connectivity it looks like they'll have a brand new Bluetooth
capable chip on board although they're not planning to utilize that out of the
box and it also looks like they have a new RF chip which appears to be a direct
replacement now the big news is the remote coming for that device a brand
new remote for the Nvidia shield TV if you remember from CES 2019 la metric had
their new sky product which looked a lot like the nano Leafs now I really like
this one because it allows you to display information and I've always
liked their little la metric time because it did it allowed you to display
different information if you'd like so I really like their products that are on
the more expensive end and those skies are on presale right now but selling out
very quickly Apple looks to have about 5 new iPads
coming out now why am I talking about an iPad on a smart home show here well the
honest truth is I believe one of them is the home pod - now I've always said this
home pod needs a visual interface and Apple will be using their iPad platform
to accomplish that now those filings are going on in a lot of different countries
right now and it does look like it'll come kind of in their Hardware event
here in just a few months time Elgato Eve has put out a new in-home
temperature humidity sensor it has an on-screen display and it looks like it's
gonna retail at about $70 u.s. now speaking of those products that I've
been reviewing here for companies I have this on this home kit enabled sensor
temperature humidity and motion as well now the elgato Eve one called the Eve
degree I believe it is home kit enabled or it's home kit compatible and that's
really the big point of it now that's a $70 with a display now this is 25 us and
again I've been demoing this and testing this product
for a while now been very impressed unfortunately there's no way to trigger
kind of the homekit automations with the temperature or the humidity sensor yet
speaking of home kit capable devices the acara m2 or version 2 of their hub is
home kit compatible all of the new sensors that they're putting out our
home kit compatible as well and it looks like the number of sensors or number of
devices you compare what this hub goes up from thirty to a hundred so a lot
more capability here as well as bluetooth 5.0 ZigBee 3.0 and what's a
little bit strange is a physical Ethernet jack and only Wi-Fi 2.4
gigahertz not 5 gigahertz so some interesting choices there from acara
one company i've been working with here very recently is switch bot and switch
bot has a brand new thermometer and hygrometer i don't know why we need to
use such hard names for a humidity sensor but it shows the humidity and the
temperature on board pairs directly with their hub through bluetooth and really
has worked flawlessly since i've had it in my home so very impressed with this
little device from switch bot and i continue to enjoy their products he like
continues to develop their platform in their series of lights here but they're
focusing on just a couple of protocols now they have bluetooth mesh desk lamps
and lighting that has been coming out here for a little while
they had their Candela product a while ago that was bluetooth mesh and it
really that's what they're utilizing for all of these desk lamps and other
lighting products and again the other protocol or the other thing they're
really focusing on is staying home kit compatible ge has put out a brand new
air conditioner that retails around 350 u.s. is home kit capable in also has
geolocation capability just in case you didn't have that in 800 different other
ways although I find them relatively ugly the Symfonisk speakers there
that's the partnership between Ikea and Sonos have actually been launched now
it's hard to tell exactly how these products are going to get integrated
with other systems there's really not a lot right
now that they can do the product that I really look at from Ikea that is still
coming out and has been delayed a few times are the IKEA smart blinds here and
that product I think a lot of people are waiting for will integrate with their
trad free line of products and I'm looking forward to actually trying those
out now if you've been kind enough to wait this long and listen this long then
I'm going to tell you that the Nintendo switch lite has been announced fully
now I realize that has nothing to do with Smart Home Products but I wanted to
tell you cuz it's my channel so sorry this past week we also reviewed and
showed you how to set up your Amazon Echo Show 5 that product sitting over
here it is a great new product from Amazon and if you want to see what
that's all about there is a playlist on screen right now otherwise guys you know
my motto is don't hate and automate and we'll see you next time