The Best New Smart Home Devices This Month!

Here are some of the best new smart home products for the month of June! We're pulling together the new smart home devices and the new home automation products you might want to have a look at and then giving you a quick review of those devices and what we've found. Enjoy!

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00:00 - The Best New Smart Home Devices in June
0:24 - One of the Industry Innovators With 2 New Products
2:31 - Two Major Aqara Releases
4:47 - 2 Incredibly Inexpensive Smart Home Sensors
6:20 - A Wild Idea
6:57 - Better Than a Smart Plug
7:57 - 3 New Govee Outdoor Lights
9:57 - 2 New Smart Cameras
10:55 - So Cheap For A Matter Light Switch
11:25 - Measure Your Energy
12:29 - The AYL Outtakes

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Brian

[HughD]

Hey, Brian, I really enjoy a look forward to your new product video each month and this was another good one. I have the new Aqara hub and the LTE subscription, but haven't used that yet. Having services that will still do certain things in the event of a power or Internet outage adds functionality to most smart homes. While I know you folks in Alberta could be accused of blowing smoke...toward your neighbors to the south, you never seem add to it!!! Thank you.

[obijuan-]

Me too, I most enjoy you bringing new products to us. Your reviews are honest telling us the good and the bad or "not quite there yet". That's most valuable to us on a budget. We know you are a Sonoff fan. So take a look at their new ZB Bridge Ultra. I just replaced my P with the U version and I see an improvement in those subdevices there were distance-wise dropping offline. I have no scientific method to measure, but I believe it has greater range. And the Ultra is Matter. Its pricier at $54 U.S. but a lot cheaper than a M3 with Matter.

[troyh]

Hi Brian - awesome channel !
I was wondering what you would recommend for a home hub. I am very Alexa dependent for speakers and music. I am building a new house and already have 50+ Kasa switches and 2 bluetooth garage doors. I plan on having a bunch of POE cameras, roomba, thermostat etc. I plan on keeping alexa but i am interested 6:44 in a hub that can keep everything going when the internet goes down and i can control with Alexa. Do you have any recommendations ?

Thank you
Troy

[Joseph-kokl]

Really like the shorter more focused video's.

[Yama_]

All you need to make a garage door sensor is a freely articulating metal hinge and a contact sensor.

Attach one side of the hinge directly to the garage door so the other side will hang down when the gate is open overhead but lays flat against the door when it's closed. Put the passive part of the contact sensor on the freely moving side of the hinge.
Place the active side of the contact sensor so it will register the door as closed when it is. Takes 2 minutes.

[rogeroshea]

Brian can you recommend an outdoor Bluetooth speaker that can be linked into HomeKit so as to link with HomePod minis

[garethjones]

Take my entire bank account for that paint cam right now 💷

[garethjones]

12:49 Not just me who is still an adolescent boy then 🤣

[mtnpeek]

What’s the best outdoor battery operated camera for a rv that can be mounted with a magnet?

[TechWithTony]

Hi 🇨🇦. Re: Amazon Canada, is it really $219 for one of these govee triple flood lights? I checked the govee sight for these to see if the price is accurate. Doesn’t exist on govees sight.

[cdarrigo]

Does aqara have plans to allow other non acara perhaps non-matter devices into their ecosystem? I've got a bunch of goveei lights and I'd like to unify all my smart home devices into a single automation platform

[GaryMetzker]

Any idea if the Aqara M3 hub works with automations when 100% offline? I saw a few early reviews where it didn’t appear to work when the internet was down.

[AndyBerman]

The last time I saw a smart device named M5, it was trying to take over the enterprise

[DementedDog]

Oh dear - wait for the paintball-related law suits!

[realsushrey]

So Aquara have learned that Matter in fact does matter.

[kevinhilton]

Call me boring but none of the products mentioned really excite me...

[c]

I'd rather just hire you to mop and vacuum!