normally I start this video by giving you all of the latest updates smart home news and
features but today we're gonna shift over to Paul to get some news from him
alright
hello Automators, thanks for tuning in again now the first thing I want to tell
you about is our community boards and if you haven't already gone over there and
signed up well go get signed up I'm bringing some new functionality to an
already very active community where we're going to be able to exchange items
sell items on the community boards there so go ahead head over there get signed
up and even if you're not there to buy and sell you'll learn a ton from the
people who are already there now one of the things that was posted over there in
the community boards is by David and he actually told us that his Amazon Echo
devices when you get a reminder on them you hear the reminder you're told about
the reminder you could actually ask to delay that and we've seen a number of
the members over there confirm this as well and I've confirmed it now as well
now it defaults to an hour but you can ask for up to a day right now
now I don't want to get too deep into this we're gonna check in with Paul
again let him give you an update was that always there Google is a company
Amazon is one too
Wow. This little guy sitting here is called Hugo and I'm actually working on
another giveaway so we are within a few days of the end of our giveaway now here
on automate your life our massive $900 giveaway, but I'm working on another giveaway
here for another one of these Hugo so stay tuned for that one thing that Pete
Walker actually showed me on Twitter was the fact that tp-link and Kasa Smart
home products are now able to be integrated with Samsung SmartThings and
this is a huge benefit for a lot of us who have those this is a very cheap you
know $10 Wi-Fi bulb is kind of what I got it for and I've actually attached my
studio lights now to tp-link many smart plugs and with the capability of
connecting it with Samsung SmartThings and then into Google and Amazon there's
a lot of functionality now that you can take advantage of IKEA smart blinds
we're actually supposed to be out relatively soon here but we're not going
to see them come out in the u.s. until October and they will demo or come out
in Sweden on August 1st so a little bit of a push back here from Ikea but what
I'm hearing or what I'm reading is that they will be Homekit compatible working
with Google and Amazon as well and you're going to be able to connect it to
the tradfri app and so you have just a ton of options for controlling those
smart blinds which run from about 130 to 180 us over to Paul for some news babe
why does this camera keep turning on now the community page on automate your life
here on YouTube I don't use that often but the other day I did pick up a robins
egg it was just kind of sitting out and unfortunately it was just left there so
we've automated that situation and I think I'm just a few days away from
finding out whether or not this is going to work
it looks like Amazon Prime day will be on July 15th this is leaked out by
Amazon an email now we don't have details on
what's on sale but we're already seeing some of the sales starting to ramp up
it looks like Facebook will not only be trying to take over the world of money
and currency with their Libra currency coming in 2020 but they also appear to
still be trying to get the portal platform into the smart home now they're
working on other form factors and other products actually a camera that would
plug into TVs and if I had to bet they're saying other form factors for
the portals so I would expect a TV or a plugin for a TV maybe a streaming device
like a Roku a lot of you out there and I found this through home tours that we do
here on the channel use the G easy way light switches and one of the newest
versions or the newest versions of the Enbrighten series here is about 20%
thinner and it's also removed some other components to make the installation
really easy they also have the additional s2 security onboard and all
of the latest z-wave capability so really powerful stuff coming off I don't
know if you remember but back at CES 2019 there were a ton of new doorbells
and doorbell cameras that were supposedly coming out this year and
honestly we've seen very few of them come out but one from ring is finally
out it's the Door View Cam that goes over your peephole essentially in your
in your door and so this is a very different type of installation device
but it's $200 on sale in the US right now coming to Europe Canada New Zealand
and Australia here in the UK later this year and other countries after that now
the free monitoring solution with that device it allows you to basically get
notifications and then speak with someone or look at someone when they're
at your door otherwise there's no recordings but the recording plans are
three to ten dollars a month depending on how many cameras you have now let's
try and get Paul again here and see if we can get this done why are you still
asking me I literally know nothing like everything from Brian maybe the
highest quality content we've gotten from Paul oh and in case you didn't
believe that Nest and Google were merging well the nest store is gone now
now what I'll tell you is if you're managing any of your nest devices it's
still on Nest.com otherwise things have been ported over to the Google store now
this one's a little scary Nest and Google have confirmed that there are
some users who if they sold their Nest cameras and previously had them
connected to the Wink application well they can actually still go and look at
those Nest Cams no matter whether they've factory reset it or sold it to
someone else and put it on a different network that capability is still there
so a little bit of an issue with the wink application and the Wink Hub paired
with a nest of ice on the slightly happier side of things Google Assistant
will now remember your parking location if you'd like it to do that this was
something people had in Google now and is now available again in Google
Assistant now on top of that there's a number of new voice models here and I
just have to read them Dutch Indian English Indonesian Norwegian and
Japanese all got updates and on the developer side of things so these are
not new voices that you're going to see in terms of your assistant application
or your Google home application just yet