This week's show kicks off with news from Lennar about its new smart home offering with Ring, and a discussion on what it means that Ring now has more than 2,000 police and fire departments as partners. After that, we discuss what we learned from the … [Read more...]
Lennar teams up with Ring for the smart home 2.0
Lennar, Inc, one of the largest homebuilders in the U.S., is making it easier for homebuyers to purchase a complete smart home. Today the company announced Lennar Communities Connected by Ring, a full smart system with connectivity, a thermostat, … [Read more...]
How Lennar and Amazon work together to sell the smart home
Lennar plans to become an Amazon experience center that will sell and showcase a variety of smart home devices in Lennar's model homes. This is a deepening of the two firms existing partnership, since Lennar had dumped Apple's HomeKit last summer to … [Read more...]
Podcast: Lennar’s smart home and why it dumped Apple HomeKit
Like the rest of the tech media, Kevin and I kick off the show with a discussion about data collection and privacy in light of the allegations against Cambridge Analytica. We also talk about smart home lock in, Alexa's new "brief" mode, shopping on … [Read more...]
Lennar’s bet on the model smart home
The home was like hundreds of others located in planned communities across the state of Texas. Limestone and wood on the exterior and browns and beige throughout. But if you lived there, you could open your front door by simply touching its hardware. … [Read more...]