Hi, I like your channel giving me so much information but I’d like to know why so you use google hub and amazon hub since they are not local and privacy? Honestly i’m in the middle to choose what kind of automation i’d like to use for long term! thank you in advanced
That's a long and complex discussion, but there are some really good reasons to use a simple pre-created hub. Also, lots of the automation is moving local with Matter, so it's coming.
Matter protocal with Thread touter is the future standard, but it is not really ready for prime time yet. Maybe in a few years, when more device types and features are added. If you want to go local and private today, Home Assistant with Zigbee or/and Z-Wave controller and devices.
hi Brian , i have a switchbot ecosystem with (3 cameras, 2 hub mini, 2 bot and 6 bulb) and a homey pro 2023.i should go for switch to aqara ecosystem ? it's seems like more stable and future proof. What do you think? thanks
Just don't buy any tvs because of the drm debacle...you can not view drm stations... Hubspace refuses to do matter/thread... Will the homey pro work locally when the Internet goes down??!
Ok I’m becoming Homey addicted after your recent update, I did buy Homey and it integrates with my Tesla, my Campervan with my Victron equipment picking up all the temps sensors and solar, running all my house timing and integration with Miss A is excellent and Philips Hue, unable to use smartting multipurpose sensors at the moment but may be me.
Nice to hear this! I can't wait to show what we can do with this system too. Some integrations could take a bit! So your sensor there might just be a while and isn't likely you.
I want matter Robo vac to make an accurate map of your house for you instead of you having to do it yourself. The Robo vac scans the layout of your house the add it to home kit, amazon , or google home.
I found that my Home Depot Hubspace light switch was pretty good and the app was fine. But it wasn't locally controlled (i don't think) and the integration into Home Assistant was kind of a janky HACS integration that was reverse engineered and could break at anytime. Without reliable HA integration and no local control I didn't get anymore Hubspace devices.
Good summary, thanks. Do you know if that Samsung map view will be coming to Smartthings app? Or even hopefully one day to Google Home app now Samsung and Google seem to be playing nicely together.
Hey Brian, the Rabbit r1 seems cool, but I feel that at the rate AI is expanding, and with the recent release of Google Gemini, very soon, I think it may be outdated, as our devices will be able to do all that natively. Also, I don't know if you're planning to do a video, but its hard to know what Smart Doorbell to go with in 2024. So many options, Old classics like Nest, Solid releases like Aqara and now brand new ones, so would love to see another comparison video to help us know the best one
I have a xreal air 2 pro. After all the hype I was somehow disappointed. The portable big screen is nice, but don't buy it for the Virtual Desktop environment. The nebula software is just not there and the FOV not good for this use cae. It made me preorder the Visor of immersive 2days after 😅
It’s all good making more smart door locks only for the US market they don’t make smart door locks for the UK in the UK we do not us deadbolt door locks only the US get the best smart door locks
There's no point to a transparent or a foldable tv. These are just inventions for rich people to buy and never use. The whole concept of these tv's make absolutely no sense.
The first story must be an early April fools joke Thin-Q is absolute garbage I have a C1 OLED and this TV does not work at all with either Alexa or Google home , like at all. LG SUCKS at anything smart. The Thin-Q. App is trash and the setup process to get Alexa set up was the most ridiculous and convoluted thing I have ever had to go through for any smart home product. And then in the end it still doesn't work at all, you can't even turn the TV on or off ,or mute it or adjust volume. Weirdly there is like one streaming app that allows you to pause with Alexa but besides that literally nothing else works LG should just give up on making their stuff smart and get rid of Thin-Q altogether because it's an out of control garbage fire. They need to dump web OS as well because it is also a garbage fire. Mute icon shows up when TV is not muted and vice versa. CEC is a crap shoot, sometimes my AVR switches on but 90% of the time doesn't. ARC is just as bad , my TV randomly reverts to TV speakers all the time for no reason at all , I set it to ARC and it alwat sets itself back to the TV speakers randomly for no reason. LG is the absolute WORST TV to buy if you have a smart home. The upscaling is also complete garbage on their TV's ,my C1 was rhe worst purchase I have ever made. I won't ever buy anything made by LG again. 0/10 just stay away. I am not the only one who has these problems either. When googling to try and find a solution all I fout were people experiencing the exact same issues and they were not able to make it work either. LG gives ZERO F's In the end I just bought a cheap Tuya wifi universal remote IR hub from AliExpress, I paid $1.78 for it and it works perfectly with the smart life app. It is bewildering to me how LG can F up this bad on a TV that costs north of $1k and they are a multi billion dollar corporation yet I can but a device rhat works perfectly with Alexa and that can control tens or thousands of IR devices for less than $2 from some no name Chinese company. Also Tizen is garbage too BTW. Korean TV's jave absolute trash software just like their phones. Also smartthings is a mess and Tuya smart life is better in lot of ways
3:33 The TV manufacturers are waaaay behind the curve on TV backlighting My neighbor had a Phillips TV like 30 years ago with built in synced backlight, anyone else remember ambilight? They should have developed a universal standard ARGB connection for TV backlighting years ago. They should have the sync box already be built into the TV'S and just have a 3 pin connector so you can just buy an LED strip and plug it in. Sync boxes cause problems and you can't get the backlight to sync with built-in sources. They could solve all that and simplify things by making a new standard and building either everything in including the backlight or just building in the sync box processing and have a 3 pin connector or maybe 2 of them (an extra one for power injection at the opposite end of the strip). They instead focused on other long dead gimmicks like curved screens and and 3D.
The rabbit device seems a novelty at first glance. Good for booking a quick uber or choosing a music track. But then if it's just a companion device, alongside my phone, I ask it to play music but I'm already wearing earphones linked to my phone, it's not gonna play out of those is it. So might as well just use Google assistant on my phone or watch to play it in the first place! For more complex things as shown in the launch video; booking a whole international trip etc, is anyone seriously going to rely on one sentence to book a trip worth thousands. Surely everyone would want to look through hotels and flights and make an informed decision and ensure they're getting a good deal. Also how would you pay for it, I bet this device won't play nicely with my Google pay info! Actually if they designed this same concept in a watch it might get more take up than another pocket sized device that looks like it was designed by Fisher Price! Anyway just my thoughts Brian, glad to hear you've ordered one and you can prove me wrong when it's brilliant!
I’m struggling to decide if I should go with Aquara or Eufy for home door locks and cameras. I’m currently using nest and google products but getting rid of them as I feel Google isn’t supporting their Canadian customers, no bard.
Aqara has much better integrations with other platforms, and a very strong automation engine. Eufy is more about camera and video quality. No real integrations or automations. That's kinda the choice for me!
Thanks Brian.
Thank you!
Another great "heads up" video. Thanks Brian!
Thank you Big Bear!
10 years in the making Thread plans to provide shared credentials.
Yep!
7 ways to unlock? YAY! that will be an extra long (4 minutes) LockPickingLawyer video. I expect the yellow hammer to come in.
lol
Glad to hear the thread network is being unified.
Yeah that's a big deal!
Thanks for the update. Nice overview
You bet! Thanks!
Great overview - thanks for the update!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Can you make a video of how to backup all smart home devices in one hub?
THat's a hard one to make. It doesn't reaaaaaalllyyyy work that way.
@AutomateYourLife Okei, I'm just worried too loosing all my smart home stuff without a backup of some sort
Hi, I like your channel giving me so much information but I’d like to know why so you use google hub and amazon hub since they are not local and privacy? Honestly i’m in the middle to choose what kind of automation i’d like to use for long term! thank you in advanced
That's a long and complex discussion, but there are some really good reasons to use a simple pre-created hub. Also, lots of the automation is moving local with Matter, so it's coming.
Matter protocal with Thread touter is the future standard, but it is not really ready for prime time yet. Maybe in a few years, when more device types and features are added. If you want to go local and private today, Home Assistant with Zigbee or/and Z-Wave controller and devices.
hi Brian , i have a switchbot ecosystem with (3 cameras, 2 hub mini, 2 bot and 6 bulb) and a homey pro 2023.i should go for switch to aqara ecosystem ? it's seems like more stable and future proof. What do you think? thanks
I think you'll have better integrations between switchbot and homey, so not sure that's a great choice!
Just don't buy any tvs because of the drm debacle...you can not view drm stations...
Hubspace refuses to do matter/thread...
Will the homey pro work locally when the Internet goes down??!
Ok I’m becoming Homey addicted after your recent update, I did buy Homey and it integrates with my Tesla, my Campervan with my Victron equipment picking up all the temps sensors and solar, running all my house timing and integration with Miss A is excellent and Philips Hue, unable to use smartting multipurpose sensors at the moment but may be me.
Nice to hear this! I can't wait to show what we can do with this system too.
Some integrations could take a bit! So your sensor there might just be a while and isn't likely you.
So you will have to permanently maintain your tv switched ON to control your smart home?
Good news, you can have more than one controller
I want matter Robo vac to make an accurate map of your house for you instead of you having to do it yourself. The Robo vac scans the layout of your house the add it to home kit, amazon , or google home.
I think that's coming, but how...do we use it? And who gets to use it!?
Wasn't Thread supposed to work that way when Matter was first released? I wonder what happened.
Not sure, to this day!
So hue will reading my palm. So if it sees a bad future it wont open the door ? :P
Ahahahahaha!
Hey, that might be the way it works. But it's Philips! Not Hue 😃
@@AutomateYourLife Oh tout that was the same thing lol.
Not in this case! This one's straight up Philips :)
Great video Brian - however your transition method is too fast, loud and obtrusive. (sorry)
Agreed!
You're the 2nd and 3rd ones to say it. I felt it a bit when I was watching it the last time.... Will adjust
@@AutomateYourLife thank you.
No mention of the Google Assistant deletions?
That's coming separately...
I found that my Home Depot Hubspace light switch was pretty good and the app was fine. But it wasn't locally controlled (i don't think) and the integration into Home Assistant was kind of a janky HACS integration that was reverse engineered and could break at anytime. Without reliable HA integration and no local control I didn't get anymore Hubspace devices.
Sounds about right for a home hardware store product on first run
Good summary, thanks. Do you know if that Samsung map view will be coming to Smartthings app? Or even hopefully one day to Google Home app now Samsung and Google seem to be playing nicely together.
I would expect Map View to come to every interface eventually, but...no announcement yet!
Whats to big deal my 2019 lg sm9000 already has chrome cast. And airplay.
Chromecast Built in is official. Helps with multi speaker groups.
Also, it's a Google Home Hub now.
Hey Brian, the Rabbit r1 seems cool, but I feel that at the rate AI is expanding, and with the recent release of Google Gemini, very soon, I think it may be outdated, as our devices will be able to do all that natively.
Also, I don't know if you're planning to do a video, but its hard to know what Smart Doorbell to go with in 2024. So many options, Old classics like Nest, Solid releases like Aqara and now brand new ones, so would love to see another comparison video to help us know the best one
Thanks for the idea! I don't know if in ready jusssst yet, but it's on the list to redo for sure
@@AutomateYourLife Sweet
we need a new reliable presence sensors most still lacking precisions
What are you looking for when you say reliable? It can mean different things to different people :)
I have a xreal air 2 pro. After all the hype I was somehow disappointed. The portable big screen is nice, but don't buy it for the Virtual Desktop environment. The nebula software is just not there and the FOV not good for this use cae. It made me preorder the Visor of immersive 2days after 😅
Thanks for the info! Good to hear from someone who's using it regularly!
Hey btw Brian, what download speeds are you getting on Steam in Canada? I wonder if youve got me beat
3 Mbps I think?
@@AutomateYourLifeWow I thought you woulda had me beat. I get a good bit better
It’s all good making more smart door locks only for the US market they don’t make smart door locks for the UK in the UK we do not us deadbolt door locks only the US get the best smart door locks
Good news for you Gio, watch for Aqara's u200 and u300 :)
There's no point to a transparent or a foldable tv. These are just inventions for rich people to buy and never use. The whole concept of these tv's make absolutely no sense.
Maybe just cause it looks nicer? The LG one looks nice to me!
@@AutomateYourLife yeah but I like looking at stuff I can actually buy as an average consumer
If it gets cheaper, you can have art behind your TV or even put a window behind it. That would be pretty awesome!!!
LG decided to be irrelevant when they killed their phones.
Nothing new, same old rubbish as always...
The first story must be an early April fools joke Thin-Q is absolute garbage
I have a C1 OLED and this TV does not work at all with either Alexa or Google home , like at all.
LG SUCKS at anything smart.
The Thin-Q. App is trash and the setup process to get Alexa set up was the most ridiculous and convoluted thing I have ever had to go through for any smart home product.
And then in the end it still doesn't work at all, you can't even turn the TV on or off ,or mute it or adjust volume.
Weirdly there is like one streaming app that allows you to pause with Alexa but besides that literally nothing else works
LG should just give up on making their stuff smart and get rid of Thin-Q altogether because it's an out of control garbage fire.
They need to dump web OS as well because it is also a garbage fire.
Mute icon shows up when TV is not muted and vice versa.
CEC is a crap shoot, sometimes my AVR switches on but 90% of the time doesn't.
ARC is just as bad , my TV randomly reverts to TV speakers all the time for no reason at all , I set it to ARC and it alwat sets itself back to the TV speakers randomly for no reason.
LG is the absolute WORST TV to buy if you have a smart home.
The upscaling is also complete garbage on their TV's ,my C1 was rhe worst purchase I have ever made.
I won't ever buy anything made by LG again.
0/10 just stay away.
I am not the only one who has these problems either.
When googling to try and find a solution all I fout were people experiencing the exact same issues and they were not able to make it work either.
LG gives ZERO F's
In the end I just bought a cheap Tuya wifi universal remote IR hub from AliExpress, I paid $1.78 for it and it works perfectly with the smart life app.
It is bewildering to me how LG can F up this bad on a TV that costs north of $1k and they are a multi billion dollar corporation yet I can but a device rhat works perfectly with Alexa and that can control tens or thousands of IR devices for less than $2 from some no name Chinese company.
Also Tizen is garbage too BTW.
Korean TV's jave absolute trash software just like their phones.
Also smartthings is a mess and Tuya smart life is better in lot of ways
We will have to see how LG does with their next generation. It looks to me like they took their weak point in smart home and improved it
My god the transitions... How many times do I need to hear... Swish....
I could swish again if it helps.
But more seriously, I hear you
3:33 The TV manufacturers are waaaay behind the curve on TV backlighting
My neighbor had a Phillips TV like 30 years ago with built in synced backlight, anyone else remember ambilight?
They should have developed a universal standard ARGB connection for TV backlighting years ago.
They should have the sync box already be built into the TV'S and just have a 3 pin connector so you can just buy an LED strip and plug it in.
Sync boxes cause problems and you can't get the backlight to sync with built-in sources.
They could solve all that and simplify things by making a new standard and building either everything in including the backlight or just building in the sync box processing and have a 3 pin connector or maybe 2 of them (an extra one for power injection at the opposite end of the strip).
They instead focused on other long dead gimmicks like curved screens and and 3D.
The rabbit device seems a novelty at first glance. Good for booking a quick uber or choosing a music track. But then if it's just a companion device, alongside my phone, I ask it to play music but I'm already wearing earphones linked to my phone, it's not gonna play out of those is it. So might as well just use Google assistant on my phone or watch to play it in the first place!
For more complex things as shown in the launch video; booking a whole international trip etc, is anyone seriously going to rely on one sentence to book a trip worth thousands. Surely everyone would want to look through hotels and flights and make an informed decision and ensure they're getting a good deal. Also how would you pay for it, I bet this device won't play nicely with my Google pay info!
Actually if they designed this same concept in a watch it might get more take up than another pocket sized device that looks like it was designed by Fisher Price!
Anyway just my thoughts Brian, glad to hear you've ordered one and you can prove me wrong when it's brilliant!
Yeah we'll see if it's any good! I'm excited to try it though, for sure :)
Face id still has a way to go. Google photos can't tell my daughters apart. Amazon photos mixes up my son when very young with his older sister.
Yeah I just don't think we're ready for this!
I cannot seem to figure out how to update the Homey Pro for that Thread integration…I’m on version 10.2.1. Any tips?
I don't have any tips today! Been focused too much on this and one other video so I haven't been able to try it.
So is sonos
No HomeKit no thanks
There's lots of homekit tucked in this :)
I’m struggling to decide if I should go with Aquara or Eufy for home door locks and cameras. I’m currently using nest and google products but getting rid of them as I feel Google isn’t supporting their Canadian customers, no bard.
Aqara has much better integrations with other platforms, and a very strong automation engine.
Eufy is more about camera and video quality. No real integrations or automations.
That's kinda the choice for me!
@@AutomateYourLife thanks I appreciate the advice and the detail you put into your videos 🙂
5:47 the vain is a lot more intensive
Thanks for the overview! CES got a little boring for a few years so nice to see some cool stuff coming.
More to come! Thanks!
Nice
You're nice!
Nice video I don't have a TV but Amazon echo is like a TV. By the way I like your shirt I have my sonic shirt.
Ooooh, but our shirts are not compatible! Cause it's always been Sonic vs Mario! 🤣
Oh ok
@@SonicFanaticEthan just kidding!
Lol
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