Home Assistant tries with a new hub: The campaign for Home Assistant Amber is now live. For $149, customers can buy a Raspberry Pi computer that is pre-loaded with Home Assistant's software and several radios including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee. … [Read more...]
Podcast: Wyze comes back from the edge
I need to warn y'all in advance that we don't discuss Apple news at all this week because nothing really jumped out at us for the IoT. But we did have a lot of other big news starting with Wyze raising $100 million and sharing the precariousness of … [Read more...]
Podcast: Blast off with IoT in space
This week we kick off the show discussing several smart devices that might provide a modicum of security or comfort in case of weather disasters associated with climate change. After that, we start the long goodbye to 3G and discuss how companies are … [Read more...]
Podcast: Australia’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad surveillance law
We start this week’s show with a look at a new surveillance law passed in Australia that seemingly obliterates a lot of protections about how law enforcement officials can access data and what they can do with it. We also talk about a survey … [Read more...]
Podcast: Is this robot an INTJ?
This week's show starts off with old news that I forgot to tell y'all about last week: The Matter interoperability standard for the smart home is delayed until 2022. We talk about what that means and then turn to Google's confusing fitness wearable … [Read more...]