Could These 3 Things Save Your Smart Home?

The biggest dream for a

smart

home

is for it to simply react to you as you go about

your

day, crazy enough that that dream is very close with this Kickstarter from a company called Fluid that combines those ultra-wideband chips and iPhones with 20,000 existing

smart

home

s. home gadgets to give you two amazing features: the first feature is being able to point

your

phone at smart gadgets to bring up a control screen and the second is that your home will react as you move with your phone, that's us. only at launch, but it gets a big shout out from me with its huge range of compatibility, compatibility at launch and the fact that it just makes everything come out of a small circle in your home and your phone, and this is just one of the three

things

that are branded. new or upcoming thing that I think

could

really save the smart home, all three

things

and some other pretty awesome tech news is here today on Brian's lightning round on new automations for the smart home, thanks for tuning in again.

I'm Brian from Automate Your Life and while your smart home has been a tough place lately with Samsung announcing the end of the Groovy platform, Amazon adding sponsored skills to its Echo programs and Google and Sonos continuing to weaken their two smart speakers, I think I've got some Pretty uplifting stuff. The next big news is from Google, which has been quietly building the next generation of Nest Wi-Fi routers. Surprisingly, there are six antennas on the upcoming Nest Wi-Fi router. Google called it an internal proprietary antenna solution and will give you access. to wire Bluetooth and Wi-Fi at 2.4 gigahertz, 5 gigahertz and even six gigahertz, that means it will not only give you Wi-Fi 6 but it will also give you Wi-Fi 6E and with everything else there, it's a controller important to Sure it will hold up on a ton of Wi-Fi devices like the previous generation.

Joining threaded networks and speed issues should be a thing of the past. Approved. Google Thumbs Up. Now unleash bad boy number three on my list. the promising smart home protocol that boasts many benefits over zigbee and Z-Wave, the latest version called thread 1.3.0 does some impressive things, but the most exciting thing is that a homepod mini, an Amazon Echo and a Google Nest will be coming soon . Wi-Fi and really any other thread 1.3 edge router will all work together on the same thread network to connect your smart home. This means that not only will the speed of the Wi-Fi network be platform independent and the standards of the matter will be independent as well, but so will the thread.

It seems like a smart and safe home to me, in case you weren't afraid of Amazon's military capabilities when you saw The Ring always starting camera, then it's time to be afraid of its next tank. What I'm talking about is that Amazon is paying $1.7 billion to buy iRobot to sell you a vacuum cleaner or six of them. What this acquisition gives Amazon is some pretty advanced mapping technology, as well as another roving device with a ton of sensors that they can integrate into everything they already have. I'm not sure I want to give any kind of reaction to this other than concern, it's just a lot of sensors and data that a company can have.

The purchases didn't stop there either because the fight against electricity purchases ran out of cash a few years ago. It would have been unthinkable, but I think we'll see more of these deals, and I'm actually very excited because the team in the fight confirmed that they would keep the two brands separate in terms of app and software development, but would work to integrate some. Of the technology that should improve both lighting products and are already pretty amazing, one of the things you'll probably notice in your home these days is that five gigahertz Wi-Fi doesn't go as far as 2.4 gigahertz.

Because higher carrier frequency waves can get trapped or absorbed by the materials in your home and happen more easily than lower frequencies, now with Wi-Fi 6E with six gigahertz as the carrier frequency, this problem will get a little worse and It's interesting. See these researchers at a couple of universities who have found a way to apply a reflective coating to walls and reduce the amount of wireless signals that the walls absorb. This

could

help all kinds of technologies and I'm excited to see this continue. To elaborate, I applaud the researchers from two universities. I mentioned earlier that Amazon was enabling preferred skills on Echo Show smart displays, which is actually a way to show you ads, but Amazon also has other news that's more interesting.

At last month's developer live event, they released five APIs that will really improve the options developers have, but my favorite is the Device and Group Organization API, which will sync device and group names with third-party apps, what it really comes down to meaning when it is created. a group in the Hue app will appear on Amazon you will also lose an app if by the way you have received some kind of statement after asking the Amazon Voice Assistant to do something then you can try the following command, try losing a pass by the path and you should be able to disable that feature.

Amazon is also launching widgets on the Echo Show 10, although you may find the interface a little slow, plus visual identification has come to both the Echo Show 8 and 10 and I like to see that expansion, but there is also a continued expansion of things new ones that will rotate across the screen, such as daily information, exploring local places, and productivity recommendations that you may want to turn off within settings. You will also see a new photo frame mode on the screen. echo shows and fire TVs, but there seems to be a limitation of about three hours and finally, if you're in the UK you might be excited to know that Ziggy is now a valid wake word on your Echo speakers or if If you follow Ken on Twitter you already know this, which reminds me that I get a lot of good news from people all over the world who just send me this stuff which is really helpful as it keeps me up to date with all this news, but Another big help for me is my members and I want to thank you here and now because you are really making this video possible and the other videos I make every month to automate your life, so thank you to those of you who are members and to our New members this month For those of you who don't know you can join on a computer wherever you see that little join button on the screen, you'll get early access to videos and there are some pretty cool perks depending on what you need.

Inside your smart home, let's quickly shoot at some new devices that have just been released or will be released soon. Eve released a new motion sensor with thread support, plus they lumped everything they could into their Elite smart video doorbell which costs 500 and is pretty crazy Canon released PowerShot, go for a 500 camera that reminds me of Google Clips because Swivel and tilt to capture the best moments in your home. Xiaomi showed off a really stylish smart control board at a cost of only sixty US dollars. It has a fairly low resolution. a 5.4-inch screen that is also touch a two-megapixel camera for video calls and facial recognition has its voice assistant on board and could give you control of more than 3,000 devices Samsung continues to use the term personalized on every appliance it sells with a new washer and dryer that are compatible with SmartThings and supposedly have artificial intelligence features, whatever that means today, and if you didn't see several content creators showing off Samsung's new 55-inch rotating monitor, it It looks incredible and it makes me sad.

I bought an M7 now Samsung. They also had their Galaxy unpacked event where they showed off the Z flip 4 and Z fold 4, which are upgraded versions of their foldable smartphones. Now they still cost more than a thousand US dollars, so it's nice to see them from afar. The Galaxy watch 5 and 5 Pro have a body temperature sensor that provides ECG, heart rate analysis and body composition, it has 13 batteries larger than the four, and finally, Galaxy watch owners can use Google Assistant on they. My friend Michael told me that WeMo is back in Australia and recently released a new wire-connected dimmer, but unfortunately that dimmer won't be supported, so pass.

Zeus released a new version of their Z-Wave power strip and I have to say it's pretty perfect, it also works great with SmartThings and has power monitoring enabled. every outlet and in case you needed a Wi-Fi connected toaster for no good reason, here's one for $350. The Apple event on September 7 gave us the new iPhone 14, iPhone 14 plus with its larger screen, as well as the pro and pro Max. The iPhone 14 and 14 plus include the a15 processor plus a 12-megapixel main camera, while moving up to the pro and pro Max gives you an a16 and really improved camera resolution, plus the new software feature with the pill in the top of the phones.

Well, Apple also introduced the new Airpods Pro, which they actually just said are better at everything they did before and three new Apple Watches, including the SE, which is a budget model and then you move on to the Apple Watch 8 and the new Apple Watch Ultra. Starting with the eight you get these new temperature sensors that I'm about to tell you came out earlier in a leak. Now that dual temperature transmitter sounds great to me because it will be more accurate. The Ultra is really designed for that enthusiast or adventurer. and it includes some extra features for that type of person, but with its eight hundred dollar price tag, that's one of the things.

I'll probably take a step back from now on. If you like tech leaks, I think you'll really like these leaks. Google's wired video doorbell is at the FCC now with 2.4 and 5 gigahertz connectivity plus Bluetooth and the ability to connect via USB without images, but now this is less of a leak and more of just listening to what the CEO says from Google during earnings reports, but they are testing a new version of Google Glass, their Vision was shown at Google I O but they are currently testing glasses in public with microphones, a camera and a transparent screen to give all kinds of information about the lenses The dates can change at any time but the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro look like they will be available on October 13 of this year, no surprises, but that could tell us the release dates of the other Nest products we are waiting for.

Amazon's 3rd generation Fire TV cube is in the works and I bet it will be out in less than a month, there are no details or specs on it other than I would expect it to be 8K ready and I would bet it has a thread talking about 8K, The next version of Apple TV could be called Apple TV. 8K, as Apple appears to be producing it, as well as producing a new homepod Mini and a new larger Home Pod. In addition, the Apple Watch 8 seems to have a new sensor that could measure the temperature differential to provide much more precise information. temperature measurement, which is important for all types of calculations, but up to this point you could argue that they have been wrong for a while.

Now you have been able to create a scene in the Hue app and have it use some colors to make it dynamic when you have created the scene correctly you will see this little play button on the scene and that converts it from a static scene to a dynamic one. The really interesting thing about this is that now, within the Amazon routines, you can choose the dynamic or static scenes when you activate one of them and you can also turn them on or off, which is something strange for scenes that talk about dynamic scenes, the application Hue looks set to get the daylight feature that was promised years ago and is only really coming to Apple's Homekit users.

You can check your app now and when you enter the scene selector, you may have a natural light option. If you do, you're part of the test group and you should feel like an absolute superhero because Signify was eliminating. this from apps just a few weeks ago because it's not ready to go yet, now let me know if you have this one, but I love seeing these dynamic features come to you and when you consider all that plus the new widget creation feature that really allows you to turn on and you turn off your scene when you create one of those widgets, it's a powerful thing in a really easy way, so Philips Hue is getting my thumbs up for all those new features and continuing to develop them for us if you live in the US and went to McDonald's Recently, you may have come across a voice assistant in the drive-thru.

Unfortunately, if you run into this, then you have about an 80 percent chance of gettingthe food you ordered, the reason I tell you. That's because it wasn't Amazon, Google, or Apple's Voice Assistant, it was IBM, Watson, moving away from consumer-type apps only to come back and be part of a true consumer-type app, but with that precision , one in five people needed another type. McDonald said that once this reached an accuracy of about 95, they could implement it and I think this shows the future of voice assistance in many ways and how you may end up talking to more than a few.

Google Chromecast with Google TV has been pretty much stagnant since its launch, although it has received a few minor updates here and there, but an internal document was leaked that had a number of updates that When it comes to this device, it looks like 2024 will be a pretty big year. for Google Chromecast and Google TV in general, as the Nest speakers will eventually become wireless speakers for that system and where the OS integration will give you interactive video workouts on your TV with some of your stats displayed in real time on screen, security cameras should be available to stream, which actually happened relatively recently with the Nest doorbell, but in 2024 you should be able to watch the stream without the content pausing, so it will be a small image. -image deal now the Chromecast itself received some updates with its first update of the year removing third-party screensavers so that ambient mode can always be there, which now contains ads.

Google gets the go-ahead. I'm going to start a new segment here. flash news and I think one of the best things that we as creators can do is promote really great videos that we know our audience can use and I was talking about Philips Hue and that probably sent all of Paul Hibbert's 200,000 subscribers. away from the video, congratulations by the way Paul, but Paul's video about the new Govi ​​in ​​visual technology was really interesting to me because it showed off their new camera system and an upgrade to the existing Govi ​​lights that allowed them everyone to work in sync, not like the band. in sync but like the TV backlight in sync now watch that video it's here right now Lewis on everything the smart home is doing its own sensor and it has a ton of features so it's been fun to watch him go through this process and It's obvious the guy is smarter than almost everyone on the planet, so it might be fun for you to see what he's going through, and depending on what he does with the device, maybe he'll work on more systems than just as an assistant. domestic.

P.S. Lewis, I hope the video is here too so check it out and of course a big shout out to those two guys for their great videos. At the beginning of today's video I mentioned that Samsung had finalized The Groovy platform, which will impact 100 million. users of that system now, since I posted our video on that ending, I have some updates number one, a lot of you asked me about the virtual switches and I will tell you that I will find a solution for you if Samsung doesn't do it. You won't be getting back to me on an official line any time soon, so you won't have to worry about virtual switches disappearing because I already have a solution.

Both Sharp Tools and Action Tiles have come forward and given answers saying they will be fully compatible. with the new rules engine, meaning you'll be able to continue using them in the future. If you don't know what I'm talking about here, you should watch the video on the screen now because it's the announcement I made here to automate your life that tells you what you need to start doing with your SmartThings system. Otherwise, thanks for watching today and of course don't hate automation.