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Hi Reed, Thank you for this video. I completely agree with you on Matter. Companies should follow the example set by Philips Hue, who has implemented its Sync box into Samsung TVs.
As a amazon astro owner I will say the robot for the security feature is pretty rad. The features that will come out are definitely going to make my house smarter
A lot of Philips Hue stuff still rely on using the Philips Hue Bridge for Matter support. If they kill the current Hue Bridge, like they did with the first gen bridge, you could still end up with not having matter support on a lot of products. With that said, it is nice that a couple of their products have been released without need of the hub, I wish companies would do a little more research and development on products rather than putting a bandaide patch on by making just their hub Matter compatible.
Less prediction and more waiting/praying for: - Google Home routines to be smarter (If my door is already locked, great, don't need you to tell me that) - GH / Hue or Lutron light change requests to occur in less that 2 seconds (seems like forever) - GH / GAssistant voice commands to be smarter (feels like the failures have greatly increased and the tech is regressing)
Agree on the Matter topic. I would think a lot more work needs to be done to refine the things already being used. Example: more capabilities to refine motion sensor settings, heat sensors, automations, and of course presence within your smart home. They will always focus on new products but, it's the companies that refine the current technologies that ultimately win the war.
Not at all a Hues fan, way overpriced for what you get, but I’m glad to see their on board with the way Matter was designed to work. For those walled garden companies, if home enthusiasts would stop using them, they’d either get on board or be left behind!
I feel like people should really think about what they do in the name of convenience... Bringing mm presence, cameras, microphones, and more wireless noise into your home environment... Make 2023 the year you THINK... Choose wisely...
Hi Reed, thanks for the informative videos! Quick question for you... I want to put a smart battery operated LED in the stairwell of our apartment block. This would be triggered to switch on when our security gate opens (door sensor), and then switched off when the gate closes. We have an issue where people are not closing the gate properly and it's a security risk. The idea is that when they are walking up the stairs, if the LED light is on, it means they have not closed the gate properly and need to go back and do it. But I'm struggling to find a smart LED light that is battery operated. It doesn't need to be big or bright, in fact, small is good in this case. I don't want to have to replace the batteries too often. Any ideas on a product I could use?
I really hatre the term Smart home, i feel it should be called connected home but anyway. The trend I can see being more prevalent is the off grid or self relient home.
I think that saying that philips hue is not a wall garden and putting it as an example only because they allow users to have 1 (high price and I asume only certain models, and not the cheap ones) TV brand is not OK (even worsse when you see that you NEED A TV APP THAT COST 130 $ EXTRA), you need their hub for their lights or you lose functionalities if you use other hubs such as the alexa echo. Something like shelly, it's a pitty that they are only wifi, is a good example, you do not need even the app and has a http/mqtt server in the bulbs, but allowing 1 brand out of more than 20 brandsof TVs that I can think of and more that I don't known is not being not a wall garden, even worse when you realise that for having the sync-box experience in the samsung TV you need THEIR hub and no other is valid
They should* indeed disappear, let's hope they don't end up convincing consumers otherwise with misleading marketing :/ The well-informed will definitely end up avoiding them, so let's keep sharing the *real* advantages like here!
I won’t buy anything that is: 1. A walled garden approach. 2. Uses their own additional proprietary hubs. Do they really expect everyone to have 10 hubs sitting in their closets? No. All we should need is one single hub and everything should just work from that. 3. Doesn’t use thread. Period. Companies that don’t get on board lose my business. Simple as that.
Hi Reed, great video as always. As for robots, the only one I'd like to see in my home is the Moley robotic chef. I'm not a big fan of cooking, so having a robot with the ability to cook virtually anything I can think of would be amazing. I'll have to win the lottery to afford it though, I think I saw a price tag of $250K. I'd also like to see Alexa or another version of smart speaker with GPT-3 or higher capability. If you could tie that in to your smart home (kind of like a super smart hub), you may not have to program anything ever again. Just ask and its done, no Matter needed.
Maybe to the start there could be 1 Robot in one house. And you cut share it. If I cut walk up to 200m and get mig food. And bring it home. It will be ok for me.
