News this week of Comcast shutting down Stringify has surely upset the service's user base. Granted it's a small group of affected users - Stringify had 100,000+ downloads in the Google Play Store compared to more than 5 million IFTTT installs, for … [Read more...]
Is Mistral a next-gen mesh network Google Home Hub with ZigBee, or maybe even Thread?
Google appears to be developing a next-generation Home hub that will include mesh Wi-Fi, a ZigBee or thread-based radio and better audio quality according to the evidence I've found in Google's code base. The code I've unearthed refers to "Mistral", … [Read more...]
How to get Z-Wave smart blinds working with Alexa
This week's IoT Podcast Hotline call comes from Joe, who has Graber smart blind motors in his house. They work fine with his Wink hub but Joe can't get them to work with Alexa voice commands. There's a reason for that and even a native fix, although … [Read more...]
On-device speech recognition on smart speakers: Only half of the cloudless smart home equation
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...]
Are there outdoor Z-Wave outlets to control webcams outside? Yes, but they’re mostly the same.
This week on the IoT Podcast Hotline we took a message from Kyle, who installed a Wyze camera outside on his patio. Kyle wants to control the WyzeCam's power - or reset it if the breaker trips - through a smart switch connected to his SmartThings … [Read more...]
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