Could These 3 Things Save Your Smart Home?

The latest smart home news is here for you in Brian's Smart Home lightning news round! This month, I've found 3 things that will seriously change your smart home and maybe even save it! One of these 3 tech news items allows you to point your phone in order to automate your home and automate your life!

We'll talk about new smart home devices from Google, Apple, Samsung, and a ton of updates from Philips Hue, SmartThings, Amazon, and many more of your favorites, plus I even showed you two videos from some of your favorite home automation creators.

Of course I'll talk about Google Home or Google Nest, Amazon Alexa, some of the Alexa Live Developer's conference, Samsung SmartThings, a bit of Apple HomeKit gear, and the latest and greatest or new smart home devices available today.

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Thanks for watching, and Don't Hate, Automate.

Brian

[c]

I just finished setting up a great mesh network. Not quite ready to upgrade yet. Great video, Brian!

[RoyRacing]

There is already a great virtual switch running on Edge. Easy to find on the SmartThings Community 👌🏻

[HughD]

I love your Lightning Rounds, Brian. All I can say is it must be "Turkey Season" in Canada because you had several in the video <grin>. Keep 'em coming as it's nice to hear what folks are doing to try to play catch-up.

[houstonshomeautomation]

Great direction pointing to other youtube channels that go more indepth! 👏 I love this strategy!

[dankelley]

Brian, excellent review of new things coming to home automators. I with Paul on his Hues rant!

[GarageCrafter]

Another great, useful video. Thankful you're on top of potential issues with the new systems coming out!

[chaseezell]

Brian, I desperately need to know where you got the base for the feit bulb. I've only really been able to find taller ones and yours is perfect.

[SpaceStrike]

Ay, I respect the RTX Ultra high graphics intro

[EsotericArctos]

Fluid One seems to have mainstreamed the room presence type setup. It could potentially be a great thing, though it still looks like a glorified remote control rather than a truly smart home. Will have to see what it ends up like.
I worry about the jungle site buying companies. They really screwed up Ring when they bought Ring with Ring Cameras being some of the worst I have experience with, especially at the price charged for them.

[henryanderson]

I watch your channel and why you don't talk about bringing other devices like tuya to smartthings or we have to wait for matter or what.
I'll appreciate you
Thanks Henry

[jonward]

Rally's has been doing voice assistant for a couple months now at least in my area

[BeardedTinker]

Love the lightning fast news :) But not sure I would give first one thumb up - another hub required...

[egglevin]

Brian, I was asking about virtuals on new drivers and since then, I have been on smartthings forums and found TAustin's vEdge virtual device creator. It is pretty simple to use, and if you pick the contact sensor or momentary, then it is seen by Alexa too. Not sure if that's the one you're looking at as well, but letting you know it is working well.

[maarten]

Cool that you use the Belgian singer
Eddy Wally for the wow 🙂

[AdamJakowenko]

I have the original Nest doorbell and love it, but it's probably time for an upgrade soon so I love that they're coming out with a new one. My biggest concern however is Google's continued fragmentation between the Nest app and the Google home app and the severely limited functionality within the Google home app. I'm very concerned that the new doorbell is going to only work in the Home app and that will be a deal breaker for me. I refuse to buy anymore Google camera products until that entire mess is sorted out and everything has full functionality within one app. In the last 6 months I have needed to add three more cameras and instead of buying the new mediocre google cameras that will only work in the home app, I bought Wyze cams...plus they are higher resolution and cheaper. The only thing keeping me with the Google doorbell is the great functionality in the Nest app and the video integration into all of my home hubs.

[finnlanger]

Are you creating a smartthings edge driver for the simulated Alexa switch?

[danilolorenzetti]

That's exactly how I see automation, these projects that we have nowadays is a solution that doesn't can be called automation, it's a thing that try to be automation. Unfortunately that's what we have.

[JWard]

Fuck carrying my phone around. That's going backwards

[SeraphicRav]

The Kickstarter project feels too futuristic to be real lol
I will wait and see.

[Max]

I think it would be cool to have a smart
Dimmers with no neutral wire and the hug built in...