if there's one constant in the smart home game it is change and you're gonna
see a ton of it here on our latest smart home news
hello Automators thanks for tuning in again in just a few minutes we're going
to talk about what Apple brought out at their Developers Conference here this
year in 2019 and we're also going to talk about a number of new things coming
from Google one new thing coming from Amazon that I think is a real
game-changer as well as a number of new smart home devices that have come out
here in 2019 or are coming out later in 2019 finally I'm going to tell you what
I'm bringing to the channel and on that note why don't we talk to one of the
newest devices here ask Hubble to take a photo okay now that is Hugo or Hubble
depending on you know whether you're talking about the app or the actual
device there you can see the little echo input that is sitting here I went and
bought that I also pre purchased or pre-ordered an echo show five I'm also
on the wait list here through one of our subscribers Eric for a Nest Hub Max
all those big devices will be coming to the channel you're also seeing of course
the Wyze Sense devices that we've been talking lots about but SwitchBot
right here we're bringing out the series on that and this is a the first in a
series of products from Aeotec that's called the NanoMote Quad which is a
very powerful z-wave button actually that connects to SmartThings and a
number of other z-wave hubs so you see a ton of those products coming on to the
channel here in the coming weeks the coming months even with some of those I
mean it's gonna take me a while to get through all of that but on to the other
updates IFTTT is getting a brand new application and it's currently
in beta mode and there's a beta testing opportunity that I've been given here
what I'll tell you is I'm going to be providing a lot of feedback to if this
then that right now with the current layout the way the service is working
within this new application it's it's not something that I think I
want to deal with with your guys' comments actually from the change in the
application now there's a big update from Amazon that is basically cross
skill functionality and this is a real game changer for me and one of the ways
that I see Amazon really leaping ahead of other voice assistants right now now
what they're talking about doing is between skills you being able to
essentially pass information and this is part of the developers kit that they've
made available and so now developers of skills can go ahead and integrate this
kind of cross skill passing of information so for example how would you
use this well let's say you're looking for a movie so you're talking to skill
one about what movies are available in your city or in you know a certain
theater set that you frequent you can go and you can take that to the next skill
which is able to purchase tickets and you could get a ride scheduled to get to
that movie as well all through this cross skill it's essentially a dialog
modeling capability now that's super powerful and what I'll tell you is what
I see with that that's how Amazon's gonna bring you into shopping on their
skill or what would be their base capability there with their devices so I
bet you didn't think about that when I was first talking about it but you know
that's where I see it going is to shopping on Amazon ecobee has given us
details on a brand new smart thermostat with all three voice assistants being
capable to control that device as well as the own app and the apps associated
with those different voices and so it's a totally homekit enabled it has a brand
new interface on the front that I will say is relatively improved it's also a
smart thermostat with a speaker on it so that sounds like kind of fun if you
wanted your thermostat to become a speaker and it is intended to be greatly
improved over other speakers now it's also a Bluetooth capable so it's able to
Bluetooth audio so it gives you another access point here which is very
interesting Samsung's Galaxy home device now has a an approximate launch date
here q3 2019 so q3 of this year and the
reason I'm talking about that now is I've started to see some of the
integration capabilities of their voice assistant bixby with the smartthings
platform and I use smart things heavily and I think a lot of people use smart
things heavily and what I'm starting to see you know we saw the s10 come out and
I was able to get some screenshots and some ideas of the functionality from
tech with Brett if you if you guys don't know tech with Brett go follow Brett
he's fantastic but you know that functionality and what we're starting to
see in the new Samsung application is really powerful stuff we're Bixby's
integration I think will be fantastic and it's also intended to be the center
of a samsung connected appliance home so really powerful stuff and that Mac might
actually drive me to go get one of those Galaxy home Philips you which is Paul
Hibbert's least favorite lighting solution at this point but I can't even
don't even continue after saying that they're putting out a LED filament bulb
here or a smart LED filament bulb as well as a smart plug here within the
timeframe of September 2019 now the both of those in true Philips you fashion and
what Paul has a beef with is the cost and you know they're they're sounding
like they're around $25 u.s. apiece on the Google front other than the massive
outages we've seen here recently with you know the nest and Google home or
Google assistant being and acting odd accents changing things like that
you know I talked about this in a video earlier this week but other than those
massive outages Google is doing a lot right now and there is a lot changing we
will see Netflix on the smart displays here very
soon that seems to be coming out right away if not already showing up on a few
devices out there Mario who is a subscriber of the channel would like you
to know that Spanish is available on the smart displays as well great to see
these languages coming out being available there on top of that we've
also seen the inclusion of a speedometer on Google Maps in some cases this came
from Gareth and he's been following the channel forever and you're you would
have seen him just this last Saturday actually on our smart home tours now
Gareth there he showed me the speedometer and my first comment was
well that's great I can look at the speed I'm going right up until the point
when I crash into something this has been hanging out there a little while
but I think what we have is a new Google home mini basically coming out that
would replace the nest guard and the Google home Mini the reason I say that
is this filing with the FCC that there are a few news reports kind of out there
it has the right number 11 to replace the Google home either the standard or
the mini or something like that but it also includes a battery base which I
would expect to be there for a nest guard because you want that device to
continue to perform when there's no power in the home now about that Apple
company and even if you're an Android user I think there's some pretty
interesting things to talk about here now first off actually not about the
home pod but iPad OS now there's a new operating system that is being released
for the iPad lots of the newest generations and the iPad pros are going
to get this new operating system the beta testers are people who have the
beta people I've talked to they really enjoy the iPad OS already and it's in
beta mode here but it kinda has some impacts to the way the smart home would
be managed by Apple in their home kit and that's not entirely clear out of the
box but let me give you an example home kit security enabled camera so there's
three makers here in action have to read this one netatmo logitech
in yuffie which is a little bit surprising there but all three of those
will be at launch of this home kit and abled smart home camera that you can go
ahead and view on any home kit enabled iPhone or iPad you'll be able to bring
up the home app and have a look at them now what's interesting about what
they're doing here is that the devices will take the video or have the video
locally in your home and then it will go to an iPad an Apple TV or another what's
the other device here the home pod so the iPad the home pod or an Apple TV
will do the local processing so you would need to have one of those in your
home if you wanted this home kit enabled you can't just have an iPhone anymore
that's going to do the local processing and then it will be sent to Apple's
Cloud Servers if it's required to do that so if there's some something that's
occurring that needs to be there that's where it'll go for comparison you know
the nest cameras they do local recording on the device and local processing on
the device of that that recording or whatever they're seeing and then they
send it for facematch and and to come back with a notification
basically to the cloud services now in both cases those are encrypted services
but it's good to see Apple stepping up number one the privacy game and the the
camera the direct camera integration with home care on that topic of iPad OS
there's also a new ability to pin widgets to the home screen so this is
something with iPad OS specifically but I think we're gonna see it in the new
iOS 13 as well which we need to talk about now we have to talk about the home
pod and the voice assistant Siri there now Siri is going to sound a lot better
to you just are a lot more natural because she will be completely
procedurally generated in iOS 13 as well the home pod is going to get that
multi-user support that we've been talking about here on the channel
and that is a very important feature so it's interesting to see them Apple
continue to put new features into this home pod even as we know that second
home pod is being developed we talked about the camera situation but the
router situation is actually changing as well and this is I think a really
positive move in terms of security and smart home security and this is another
differentiator for those of you with an Apple phone and with homekit being used
if you have one of these routers what I'll essentially break it down to is
your different home kit enabled devices you know the router will manage those
devices number one it it's going to be as every bit as good as any other router
is what they say and then on top of that if you had a breach and you had a
certain device misbehaving that device would be isolated by the router so this
home kit enabled router would essentially make sure that that doesn't
get throughout the rest of your home isolate that device and not let anyone
in or out through that device as well so it sounds like a good approach being
taken we'll have to see how that actually works out but this was one of
the big smart home features that I think we should all pay attention to so there
you have it guys but there's a ton of other smart home news and we go deeper
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