the new smart home devices I'm about to show you really give a very different
look into the smart home and the industry trends in general there are
some unique things coming out so stay tuned hello Automators thanks for
tuning in again I'm Brian from automate your life and today I'm going to
take the frustration out of automation by keeping you on the forefront of the
smart home industry and as these new products come out making sure that
you're putting the right ones into your smart home so let's go with the first
product and actually we need to start with Amazon and Google I mean they had
some crazy products that came out at their different events and I think
Amazon really pushed the limit of what we expected they have the new Echo Loop
that is invite-only and so is the Echo Frames both of those devices have their
voice assistant Alexa onboard are battery powered and are intended to basically
bring their voice assistant to you in different ways
both of these products are really different takes of not just the smart
home but bringing your smart home with you and really starting to integrate
these kinds of voice assistants into the rest of your life Amazon also gave us
the Echo Studio for huge sound and then brought it all the way down to the Echo
Flex which is tiny and not really intended to be a speaker but can go in
different places like your garage because it's not it doesn't have that
cloth or that fabric on it so really different devices to be put throughout
your home as well as to be brought with you moving on to what Google brought us
yes they brought us a new nest mini that looks a lot like the Google Home Mini
device and has a wall mount and does some extra things in terms of better
speaker quality that's not really that interesting of a device but the nest
Wi-Fi in the nest Wi-Fi points are very different devices because the Google
Assistant has actually been integrated into a wireless access point or
essentially your mesh network and this is giving you voice control over your
mesh network it's also backwards compatible with their Google Wi-Fi which
is a question I get all the time already on the channel so very different things
and the the other thing that I really loved
about that design is its design its intended to sit all over your home
you're not necessarily supposed to have to hide away nest Wi-Fi device and
especially not with the points and that Google Assistant being on board now I
want to stop there for a second and talk about those Nest Wi-Fi devices and
Amazon's Eero because both of them came out with new devices relatively recently
but neither of them upgraded to Wi-Fi six and even with the nest Wi-Fi points
they didn't really even increase the speed of what they were giving you they
did a little bit there's some nuances to the device but they didn't really
increase the speed and they didn't include Wi-Fi six I'm not so sure that
these companies believe that for the price point differential they needed to
give you Wi-Fi six it just wasn't going to be a cost benefit there one of the
most interesting products coming out right now is buy switch bought and this
will be out very soon on Kickstarter you're going to be able to see it here
on the channel very soon as they're sending us some of these but the SwitchBot
Curtain is taking something that I think a lot of us go out and we're
looking for blind systems and we're looking for curtain systems and we're
adding motors and and you see all the complex it a year come complex solutions
out there but the switch bought curtain is essentially intended to move your
curtains along with the use of one of their hubs so I'm very interested in
this product and I think you will be too the title sticker came out and actually
four packs of them have an Amazon Echo Dot on Amazon as well that comes with
them if you don't know what tile is there essentially trackers we've seen
some better integration coming with Google and they're much smaller now
these Tile stickers are much smaller we had some people over on our community
boards which you can come and join any time they have shown is actually
utilizing them on very small Amazon voice assistant remotes actually and
they're not very loud but they are very effective at what they're intended to be
which is to help you locate the device although it seems like a long time the
wise plug has only been out for about 15 days now the initial reviews of these
have been very positive and in my home they've been very positive as well
you'll see these come into the channel here in our November episode 3 of our
multi product reviews so the wise plug is out it's available you can get them
in a two pack and very impressive again the packaging this small packaging that
Wyze is able to do and the integration with the rest of their products is very
positive as well LifX's candle color bulbs are now available for pre-order so
they're 45 dollars us on the LifX site you can go ahead and preorder one why am
I talking about a light bulb as kind of a unique product well it's multicolored
essentially at the same time and these can provide you a lot of different looks
and a lot of different it kind of look and feel situations or scenarios in your
home you're going to see a SimCam camera review actually come out very soon on the
channel but this camera is exceedingly different from what I've
brought into the channel before it pretty much has and I'm not going to go
in-depth everything you've been asking for from a camera and again I'll explain
this but this product it's come out relatively recently and they've been
making headway they have if this than that integration now and they've been
making a lot of headway in terms of what they're doing as a company so this is a
very interesting product and I'm going again I'm going to give you a full
review here in the coming weeks the next device I'm going to tell you about is
it's been out actually a month but relatively low fanfare because it's
expensive the Chamberlain RJO70 is a totally different type of garage door
opener but it works within the MyQ system now it's a six hundred dollar
garage door opener but what I really like about this is you don't have that
big garage door opener in the middle of your garage anymore it's actually
wall-mounted right next to your door and it looks very very sleek I would like to
try one of the in my home and I think it will be a
great device especially with the integration capabilities and the
automation capabilities that you have with other myq devices if you haven't
already seen the Hue Play HDMI sync box this box is definitely different and
while it's expensive at around $230 USD it is going to be a really different
experience for those of you who have other Philips Hue lights especially the color
lights or some of the the newest hue lights where you kind of get the
spotlights behind your TV because what it's doing is it's taking in the HDMI
signal from your source so whatever TV source you have and then you're putting
it through the Hue Sync box and then that's adding in lighting around your TV
and really bringing a whole different experience in terms of lighting to your
entertainment experience so I think this is a really interesting product
unfortunately it is exceedingly expensive when you work in the cost of
bulbs but I hope to show you this here on the channel very soon as I said
earlier in the year there was going to be an absolute explosion in new products
in this industry it's pretty clear that's not going to stop so I've been
trying to keep up with reviews by reviewing multiple products at the same
time I put both of those videos that I've done or our last two episodes of
those video up on screen now so go ahead click on one of those go watch and
you're going to see some very unique products they're reviewed and you'll
know which ones you want to add to your smart home of course guys thanks for
watching and until next time don't hate automate