This week’s news was somewhat grim for the smart home with Lowe’s shutting down its Iris smart home hub program and a number of acquisitions in the space. Those include LIFX, Neeo, and WigWag. We are pumped about the rise in mainstream attention for … [Read more...]
How to automate a laundry room bulb using sensors but not a hub
On our most recent podcast episode, Michael called our IoT Podcast Hotline with a specific question. He has LIFX bulbs but no smart home hub, and he wants to automate the light in his laundry room with a Wi-Fi motion sensor. He currently uses … [Read more...]
Podcast: How to design a better smart home
Smart home hubs are dying, DIY will become increasingly niche and smart companies are prepping for this. For example, Honeywell's smart home spin out Resideo went public this week with an eye to removing complexity from smart homes. Meanwhile, … [Read more...]
Podcast: Are you ready for IoT to be a $520B business?
A lot of people are getting a smart speaker for the holidays. That’s one of the takeaways from a recent survey by Adobe that Kevin and I talk about this week. We follow that up with the new Sonos integration with IFTTT before covering a $6.7 billion … [Read more...]
Podcast: The Nest doorbell is a great video doorbell
Microsoft plans to spend $5 billion on the internet of things, and it’s more than the usual shell game that big firms play with these sorts of announcements. We discuss its plans on this week’s podcast. We also talk about Qualcomm’s new vision chips … [Read more...]