From turning off the lights to
keeping your living room toasty,
smarthome technology can make you
feel like George or Jane Jetson.
So say goodbye to that old garage door
opener as we head into our garage
with our tech guy, Brian Westbrook.
Well, if you want to elevate your home,
Brian is the guy to talk to.
He's got the top tank trending right
now and what have we got today?
A lot of smart home technology.
Know that our homes can do a lot of control.
The light switches the shades.
The other things.
Let's take a look at some of the
gadgets now to start things off,
I wanted to begin with this command
center the center of it all.
The hub if you will.
There's two of them here.
This is Alexis Echo show 10,
the tenants version.
There's a new 15 out soon.
This is great.
It actually follows you throughout
the room so it pivots automatically
to find you to talk directly to you.
It does all the great
things you can play music.
You can use it to control your smart home.
Here's the Google Nest Hub Max by Google
One question I get asked a lot is,
which should I choose between Amazon
or Google? Sometimes it might.
It matters what you already
have in your house.
For example,
do you already have a nest doorbell?
Then you might want to get the Google
system if you love shopping on Amazon
and you have a lot of Amazon devices,
go with that, but otherwise,
pick what's most comfortable for you.
Most of the gadgets I'm going to show you
today are compatible with both systems.
Of course, we'll start with the smart plug.
This is a little bit of a gateway
drug if you will wait to get started,
you just plug something into an outlet.
Here,
any device that uses a three prong you
could plug in here I have it for signage.
You can also use this for Christmas lights,
holiday decorations,
those big fans that that run the
blowers to make big Santa Claus and
things that I have nothing to do with.
Those are great for these, they plug in.
You can say Alexa,
turn on this,
turn on that and it'll go off and do that for
you. That is why we
specifically got these.
What do you want to see?
She's listening.
We've got these specifically
for Christmas tree lights,
absolutely green lights outside,
scheduled routine turn all the Christmas
lights and she will do exactly that.
Google Nest will activate
all of those things as well.
Here's a similar version by TP Link
you can manually control them by
pushing the buttons on the device here
and it'll turn on say, this light.
If you and I can turn it off.
But the button I can also use a voice
command to my device and have it activate
or deactivate the light appropriately.
Speaking of lighting,
it's very important to think about
how you do your home lighting.
Now there's two ways you can go about it.
You can either replace all the light
bulbs in your house or you can
replace this switch is much less.
Hassle, oh here's the Casetta
wireless system by neutron.
I love this.
I have this in my house.
They didn't pay me a
thing to talk about this,
but I love this and here's why
I replaced the light switch.
All the lights on that circuit now
can be dimmed and voice controlled.
Super cool voice control.
This is a lamp system that you plug
in with an existing lamp system.
Here is an outdoor outlet as well.
Again great for those holiday
decorations outside.
OK,
you're blowing my mind
and filling up my Christmas
list 'cause I'm thinking of
people for this.
What is what is next?
We've got some shades
that are also. Like great
yeah, so the Serena wireless
shade system is great.
It's a way to take those blinds.
There may be hard to reach or in different
areas and you can actually activate
them using voice control or remote.
They work very well with the
Lutron Casetta wireless system.
A great way to upgrade your
home stylist configurations.
Available easy to order.
I ordered them from my house,
super Super slick and then you can just
activate open the blinds in the morning,
close them at night whatever you like
and the kids never have to touch him
and mess them up again. Precisely
ring has an outdoor set of
wire of lighting system.
This is their path light.
We have their floodlight.
Here there's a camera built into
this key, and Speaking of cameras
you want to monitor your home.
Here's the ring indoor camera.
This is a doorbell camera.
Couple of different models here.
It's either hard wired or it
uses this little battery right
here that you can swap
outlasts every couple weeks.
When somebody rings your doorbell,
you can instantly see who's there.
You can answer it.
You can talk back to them.
I've used the ring for
security and also convenience.
I can say I'm in the shower when
in reality I'm on A cruise ship.
Totally fine, but would ever have any idea.
Blink an Amazon company also
has a set of outdoor cameras.
As well, and you know me
because we're in the garage,
yeah, I thought,
wouldn't it be great if we
could control the garage door
opener with our smart speaker?
You can also use it on an app
on your phone so Chamberlain
has the my Q Garage opener Universal Garage
opener. It actually makes your garage door,
which is typically a dumb device.
You know it opens it closer.
Yeah, makes it smart. All
these products work together with Google
or Alexa and you can control
them using either an app or
the smart speaker at your home.
But the best thing in try this at home
when you get yourself all set up,
set up a routine good morning and all of
your lights come on your Serena shades.
Open up the outdoor lights,
go off whatever you want.
Be creative with it. Have fun.
It's easy to get started.
I love it. This has been so exciting.
I love that idea of creating.
I'm gonna call you over to my house
to help me create this master plan
once I get all these things
these are such great ideas.
You always have such great ideas.
Work people find
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And if you have questions,
reach out. I'm happy to help.
He's so helpful and I just finally figured
out my Alexa plugs last night. Yep.