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Podcast: Amazon adds Thread and beefs up Alexa

May 4, 2023 by Stacey Higginbotham

Amazon has turned on the Thread-capabilities inside its Echo devices so they can support the Matter smart home interoperability standard in its totality, so Kevin and I talk about what that will and won't do for smart home users. It's also the moment … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Echo, Amazon Halo, Apple, ARM, Blues Wireless, Computex, Forrester, Golioth, google, Level Home, Matter, Particle, SwitchBot, TagsAbode

Podcast: First impressions of the new Aqara mmWave sensor

April 27, 2023 by Stacey Higginbotham

This week we start the show with my first impressions of the Aqara FP2 mmWave sensor. This $83 sensor can detect multiple people in a room, light settings, and falls. It's also one of the first presence sensors that uses radar to detect people as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Amazon, Aqara, Consumer Reports, Ecobee, GE Appliances, google, Hakimo, Kenmore, LG, Matter, OnLogic, Ring, samsung, Shelly, Silicon Labs, Span, Whirlpool, Wiz, Yale

Episode 419: Little sensors save big amounts of water

April 20, 2023 by Stacey Higginbotham

This week's show has lots of updates and small updates. We start off with a story about a golf course near San Diego that has saved millions of gallons of water using connected soil sensors. And then we review what changed with Zigbee PRO 2023 and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Amazon, Cherish, CSA, Home Assistant, Homma, irobot, Leviton, Matter, nest, NIST, OnLogic, Silicon Labs, Thread, Withings, zigbee

Podcast: Why is the smart home still so terrible?

April 13, 2023 by Stacey Higginbotham

This week's show is full of both good news and bad news, starting with Google apparently dropping software update support for third-party smart displays. We question Google's commitment to the smart home, even though the good news from Google is that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Eben Upton, google, Matter, Microsoft, Nanoleaf, NTIA, OnLogic, raspberry pi, Samsung SmartThings, Siemens, Silicon Labs, Solar, Sony Semiconductor, Tesla, Thread, zigbee

Podcast: We need a standard for aging in place

April 6, 2023 by Stacey Higginbotham

This week's podcast is focused on IoT infrastructure, with our first conversation explaining the upcoming 6G cellular connectivity standard. After that, we discuss sales of IoT connectivity chips and modules, and the leaders in each category before … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: 6G, Bluetooth SIG, DoorBird, GE Cync, LPWAN, Nanoleaf, OnLogic, Philips Hue, Qualcomm, Quectel, Sigfox, Silicon Labs, Skylo, Unaboz

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