hello Automators thanks for tuning in again I want to show you what happens
when you turn off the internet in your smart home here today show you what
works and what doesn't now let me cue this up a little bit for you we're going
to turn off the internet first so I'm just basically going to unplug the
internet from my home and I'll leave Wi-Fi connected in my home just to show
you what happens now what I'll also tell you is that if you
remove Wi-Fi depending on your devices that you have certain things will
continue to work and certain other things will can will stop working
immediately but I'm going to show you today google home amazon's voice
assistant or the echo series of products i'm also going to show you home pod
philips hue and samsung smart thing so a number of major devices also tell you
about some of the other devices I have in my home that are both hardwired
connected and Wi-Fi or another protocol connected so let's go through it right
now now here we go I've turned off the internet and what's happened is
essentially Google home has picked up on that right away in terms of its screen
that took about a minute to a minute and a half from the time I unplugged the
cable literally just from the back of my router now if I speak to either of my
voice assistants this is what I get I can't reach the internet right now check
your modem or router connection and try again I'm having trouble connecting I'll
keep trying so there you go you can see both of these have become essentially
completely useless the second the internet connection is gone and the same
thing happens when I turn off Wi-Fi now I'll show you that again later in the
video but we're going to start with some of the other devices in my home so I've
already tested this and the first thing I can tell you is that Philips hue I'm
still on my home Wi-Fi Philips hue continues to operate and so I can go
directly into Philips hue right here and there's
a little light beside me and I'm not sure if you guys can tell that you
should be able to tell it yep and I'm able to operate those lights again as
much as I'd like really it seems I can change colors I can activate scenes I
can do just about anything I could do before I'm on my Wi-Fi and so I'm on my
home network so as long as your router is still connected physically to the
Philips hue and that's a physical connection a physical Ethernet
connection as long as you're able to get to a device that is on your home network
it will continue to operate now if I turn off the Wi-Fi on this device or I
didn't have a device that could access the network I wouldn't be able to work
with any of my Philips you products now on the flip side I have tried to login
to the Google home application I've tried to log in to Amazon's voice
assistant application my harmony hub and my nest my wise cams I have a yoohoo air
quality sensor me Ross harmony none of these services are working
because and and sorry Samsung smartthings both of the applications of
Samsung smartthings instantly stopped working
when I'm on that home network that Wi-Fi so you know I can't access any of those
things and the reason for that and I'll show you as we walk through our house
some other things but the reason that this happens is because they're all
trying to log in to cloud services or they're all trying to authenticate you
as someone who actually owns this product so for Samsung smartthings
although internally and I'll show you again in a minute internally the
functions are still working on my version 2 hub and that's very important
a version 3 hug may not still work I don't have that one to test but a
version 2 hub is going to continue to work the automation you've set up will
continue to work but what will not work is the access to the services now one
other thing that's very interesting and I will show you this one here on the
screen but I can still go into apple homekit so apple homekit is here and it
has access to two things that are very important Wi-Fi and my home network
still through my cell phone so it's able to operate the philips hue devices that
still are allowing me to control them so that's a very interesting little piece
there I cannot get either of these voice assistance to work but just based on
having Wi-Fi in my home I can go ahead and shut off that same light and go
ahead and work with my different scenes and things now things that have broken
down in home kit my Wemo bridge it it's not working any longer and I can't
access my Wiimote devices now some of your echo devices actually can continue
to work so you can see a list of the echo plus first and second generation
and the echo show should all still work now you can go in the devices tab of the
Amazon voice assistant app and you can go into those types of devices and
actually look for local voice control now I don't have it and it is a very
slow rollout but this is an option to still allow you to do just a few things
where you can control compatible smart lights things like that so something
like Philips you that is based on ZigBee should continue to work you can ask for
the time or the date you can stop or cancel alarms reminders and timers that
were already set so you can't set new ones but you can cancel ones that were
already set so it's allowing you to continue to use some of those functions
but not at a full capacity and then you can control the devices volume there so
that's about what you can do but you can also ask what can you do offline just to
figure out if you don't remember this list that I've just given you so now
let's go throughout the house and I will show you some of the automation and what
it's still doing throughout my home I'll show you a couple of different things
that are attached to Samsung smartthings because like I said you can still have
the autumn work it's just the fact that you cannot
log into the device and make adjustments so you can't physically interact with
those devices through your smartphone any longer so as I walk to my laundry
room here I've shown this on the channel before there's a multi-purpose Center
and a set of singled element classic ZigBee bulbs and you can see the
automation still working as I close and open my door for those lights to turn on
and off so that automation stays working no matter whether there's internet or
Wi-Fi in the home because it's ZigBee related this is the same for the motion
sensor attached to my smartthings hub and my philips hue bulbs they're all
working with the automation created through my Samsung smartthings now my
Wi-Fi devices have all disconnected just like the yoohoo air quality sensor and
as I asked the home pod for any sort of command or non tape I get a very similar
response from it even though apple homekit is still working now as I go up
to a device like a Lenovo smart display which is really the same thing as the
Google home hub in a lot of ways as I interact with the device which I can a
little bit but as I tap on the screen you instantly end up with the same sort
of response again and again this is basically no
matter what you do on the screen there's really nothing you can do because as you
tap on anything they're asking you to use the wake word and then as soon as
you do you get the same response and even if you want to explore things
you're getting the same response it becomes really really redundant now
here's a multi-purpose sensor that's attached to my security system in my
home it still works but I can't adjust whether or not my security system is
armed or disarmed so that's one very impactful thing for you your smart
things security system would then stay enabled if you were just coming home and
Wi-Fi and or the internet was out so now that you've seen a couple of those
things go on the difference between you know Internet
are not being available but still having Wi-Fi and the internet being turned off
and Wi-Fi being turned off the big difference here for you as a smart home
person is not on Google home or Amazon's voice assistant that really doesn't
matter but suddenly homekit is dead as well and you can no longer access
Phillips hue because you have no way into the network so essentially once
that Wi-Fi turns off you're done the funny thing though with no Wi-Fi on is
again these ZigBee networks so Samsung smartthings ZigBee your z-wave the
Philips hue capability it continues to operate through the ZigBee protocol so
they're not dead they're not not working any longer they're just not accessible
from an app standpoint or from the Internet one little tip that I want to
touch on with Samsung smartthings so you can't log into the application and the
devices continue to work now why is that there's an authentication reason for
that and this is the way that Samsung has decided to set this up and this is
based on some of the protocols are using in some other reasons that they have for
themselves but you know they have a security system or you can enable a
security system on a Samsung smartthings hub so you have to be able to
authenticate and that unfortunately requires a cloud connection so this is
the difference and I think you know although I don't love the functionality
this is important and I think this is why I'm starting to talk about some of
these thread enabled devices that could switch to a cellular mode and if if
Samsung included a cellular radio on their device you could have some of this
functionality as well where it just switches over and you can stay connected
through cellular modes so that's where thread has has I think a little bit of a
leg up it's easy for companies to produce devices that essentially can
still communicate through the end routers to cellular networks so anyways
guys I just wanted to say that about Samsung smartthings if
you go off your Wi-Fi you can still log in and get logged in to the application
but then you're not able to see your home hub because you're not on that
network or your Samsung smartthings hub because you're not on that network
really guys I was surprised by a couple of things here I don't know what your
opinions are but I was surprised that homekit continued to operate that I
wasn't really ready for I wasn't really ready for Philips you to continue to
work through the app because I was on my home network I did expect almost all of
them to go dead because of the need to login and I think this is something that
we can ask these manufacturers to start to work on because really why doesn't a
Google home product allow you to still do certain functions well that's because
there's no onboard storage and the assistant is entirely stored essentially
off but you should still be able to physically interact with the device and
have a physical you know so turn on Bluetooth you should still be able to
turn on devices just like home kit and it should still stay connected to that
Wi-Fi so why couldn't I still pipe music through my speakers if I wanted to or
play local content that I had on my network all of these things I think
should be capable with these devices they shouldn't go totally dead and stop
doing anything