The plot thickens with Amazon's privacy concerns, Google and Amazon appear to be
becoming friends, music is suddenly free Apple is bringing the boom to your home
theater system, and Wyze is coming with a huge amount of updates to your Wyze Cam
so let's go with all the latest news and updates for your smart home products
Prime video is about to show up on Android TV and Google Chromecast and on
the flip side Amazon's Fire TV sticks will show
YouTube right away now on top of that YouTube TV and YouTube kids will show up
later this year on the Fire TV sticks but unfortunately still to this day
there's nothing stated about the echo Show you'll also be able to update your
Fire TV stick to move applications around the screen again that was
something that was taken away just a few updates ago but is back now with the
latest firmware update to the Fire TV sticks. The latest privacy concern
article from Bloomberg is especially damning to Amazon what they had said was
that they really restricted the ability for people who were reviewing recordings
with their voice assistant to be able to locate people or really have any
personally identifiable information unfortunately Bloomberg's article
specifically states that Amazon has employees at it or they were demoed this
capability of going from a recording to a set of coordinates to somebody's home
and looking it up on Google Maps within a matter of minutes I've tried about
five takes of this but speaking of privacy concerns Facebook continues to
develop a voice assistant companion for their portal and oculus VR devices I
don't think I'm gonna run out and get one of those given the privacy concerns
we're already hearing in a number of these companies I said earlier that
suddenly music was free and this is gonna be something that people like and
other people don't like but in general both Google and Amazon are rolling out
ad supported versions of their music services so Amazon Music has an
ad-supported version and YouTube Music is being rolled out to the Google
devices actually I already utilized that as I was setting up a new
LG Google Assistant speaker here in my home actually tried it out before
everything was set up and it got YouTube Music with kind of a station feel
everything is similar to how Spotify does their ad supported service as well
continuing down the path with music Sonos One and Beam now have Amazon's
voice assistant control or capability with Apple Music so you're able to
utilize your Apple Music on those speakers just the same as you could in
other Echo devices Apple AirPlay 2 continues its roll-out on a number of
home theater devices Onkyo which i have one of their receivers here in my home
and Pioneer have both released major updates to firmware that allow airplay
to now one of our subscribers here on the channel actually mentioned that they
had one of those Onkyo receivers and that caused their multi-room Chromecast
built-in function here a multi-room audio to really struggle it actually
reduced the delay so much through that system that they could no
longer get it to synchronize so maybe think about these firmware updates if
you really want Airplay 2 go for it but otherwise maybe hold off a little bit
because there's probably some bugs to work out here speaking of Apple their
Siri shortcuts platform is coming to Mac OS and guys I know lots of you look
at Apple and you think high price too much but Siri shortcuts is something
that I truly believe is a major impact waiting to happen to this industry it
has the capability to actually get me someday as a PC guy to buy a Mac and that is saying
something because I have never bought one of those things we continue to see
the expansion of Apple services and their devices even to other platforms
Google Fit's application now on iOS first of all it's available but it also
integrates with the Apple health app or apps that connect Apple health and the
Apple watch so now Google Fit is capable of connecting with where OS and Apple
watches Roomba is moving to direct native support at the end of the month with Google Assistant
here you'll also find the Rachio, Flo by Moen, Rainbird, and LeakSmart devices
getting native support so that means they can be included in routines on your
Google Home devices the gentle wakeup and the gentle sleep routines here with
Google Home and Philips Hue are now available in the US UK Australia Canada
India and Singapore as long as you're using English so that was functionality
that was announced a little while ago but you're now capable of actually
utilizing that Arlo has confirmed a new two megapixel HD video door camera here
that they're producing no release date yet or price but we are seeing pictures
of it at this point Your Wyze Cam's will soon be capable
of integrating with Google Home that's a couple of weeks away
basically Wyze has worked through all the bugs on top of that they pushed out
a firmware update that allows RTSP support for those cameras and that is
something that people have been waiting for and requesting for a long time from
Wyze they also pushed out two-factor authentication and all of the software
necessary for the new Wyze Sense that Wyze Sense system has started shipping for
those of you who jumped in on the pre-order so watch your email for that
if you did if you didn't and you don't know what I'm talking about with Wyze Sense
this is quite the system and I have a video down below that you can go and
understand all the details about this and why this will be so impactful to the
home automation network otherwise guys, go Automate Your Life thanks for
watching and we'll see you next time