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Wyze has learned what Wink didn’t

July 22, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel 7 Comments

This week, smart home device maker Wyze sent an email to its 1.3 million current device owners explaining that it didn’t plan for cloud costs needed to provide free person detection for Wyze cameras. Thus, it is hoping to offset the increased costs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: AI, cloud, Edge, subscriptions, webcams, Wink, Wyze, Wyze Cam

It’s time for smart home devices to have local failover options during cloud outages

February 26, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

Earlier this week, a Nest outage lasted for 17 hours. Nest cameras didn't capture any video footage during that time. This downtime was likely a minor inconvenience, in most cases, if it was noticed at all. But for others who experienced some type of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Echo, cloud, google, nest, Ring, security, smarthome, video doorbell, webcams, Wyze, wyzecam

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

April 17, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel 4 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

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