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Can you run an OpenHAB or Home Assistant smart home in the cloud?

April 17, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel 3 Comments

Typically, people who use either the OpenHAB or Home Assistant open source smart home platforms tend to run the software on their own computer or a low-cost Raspberry Pi. Can you actually run these on cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: cloud, Home Assistant, hub, open source, openhab, raspberry pi, smart home

On-device speech recognition on smart speakers: Only half of the cloudless smart home equation

March 27, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel 2 Comments

When Google announced its "end-to-end, all-neural, on-device speech recognizer" for the Gboard phone keyboard two weeks ago, I was initially excited. That's because speech recognition can now run locally on Gboard, even without a network … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: alexa, Amazon, Amazon Echo, aws, cloud, google, google assistant, Google cloud, Google Home, hub, smart home

GE slims down and Otis tries Alexa in elevators

August 2, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

This week on the show Kevin and I speculate what digital assets GE will sell and discuss the sad bankruptcy of French smart home company Sen.se. After hitting the sad news, we talked about the latest HomePod feature expected in iOS 12 and the fact … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Afero, Amazon, Apple, cloud, Control4, enterprise, google, HomePod, IFTTT, industrial internet, Lenovo, Machinon, Mother, Netgear, Otis Elevator, Schlage, Sen.se, Sierra Wireless, SmartThings, Wyze

How we moved an IoT code project from a Raspberry Pi to Google Cloud

May 23, 2018 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

Google Cloud beta code editor

Last year, as an amateur (and I mean very amateur) developer, I created a simple Python app using Twilio APIs to run our IoT Podcast Hotline voicemail. Since the service has to run all the time, I decided to use an inexpensive Raspberry Pi as the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: APIs, cloud, Google cloud, programming, python, raspberry pi, Twilio

Podcast: Everything IoT from Microsoft Build and Google I/O

May 11, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This week was a big one in the tech ecosystem with Microsoft and Google both hosting their big developer conferences. Microsoft’s featured a lot more IoT. Google shared a few updates for its Google Home and, prior to the show, made its Android Things … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: alexa, Amazon, cloud, enterprise, Fibaro, google, Intel Capital, MachineQ, Microsoft, NBA, sam george, smart home, trendmicro, Twilio, Wyze

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