Another great "heads up" video. Thanks Brian!

Great overview - thanks for the update!

Thanks for the update. Nice overview

10 years in the making Thread plans to provide shared credentials.

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 cannot seem to figure out how to update the Homey Pro for that Thread integration…I’m on version 10.2.1. Any tips?

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

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.

Thanks for the great update Brian! This one was really well done with a little concise info about a wide range of products. I can't wait for Matter over Thread to come into more widespread use and start to cut back on all the Wi-Fi smart home devices so that 1) less Wi-Fi bandwidth is used by IOT devices and 2) More processing can be done locally at the hub level and not in the cloud. For instance, I have Reolink cameras and doorbells (I switched away from Ring because of the monthly charge AND the super low resolution). I love Reolink BUT (sigh), while the doorbells provide motion data to Alexa (only), their cameras do not! I am hoping that Reolink and others start to use Matter over Thread instead of the cloud to communicate events like motion to Alexa and SmartThings et. al. so that we can trigger events from them. Right now, i have to put a motion detector in locations where there is a Reolink camera because the camera will not report motion to ANY smart hub yet. Fingers crossed they add this feature soon. Other than that, their hardware is excellent, and their app is adequate. But WAY BETTER than Ring in terms of hardware quality and resolution. And no annual fees! Keep up the good work, Brian. I hope 2024 is the year where Matter over Thread takes hold. It will sure make things a lot easier. P.S. I have one of the Home Depot smart devices - a ceiling fan that uses Hubspace. The good news is that it allows integration with Alexa. The bad news is that it is a Wi-Fi connection and ONLY integrates with Alexa and its own app. Here's hoping Home Depot transitions from Wi-Fi to Matter over Thread in its next generation to allow more robust interoperability. I think/hope/believe that Wi-Fi is on the way out for IOT devices and will be happy when it's gone. It's expensive, unreliable and usually requires yet another app to manage.

Thanks Brian.

Thanks for the overview! CES got a little boring for a few years so nice to see some cool stuff coming.

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.

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.

Can you make a video of how to backup all smart home devices in one hub?

So you will have to permanently maintain your tv switched ON to control your smart home?

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??!

Nice

No mention of the Google Assistant deletions?

Wasn't Thread supposed to work that way when Matter was first released? I wonder what happened.

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

Hey btw Brian, what download speeds are you getting on Steam in Canada? I wonder if youve got me beat

So is sonos

Glad to hear the thread network is being unified.

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.

7 ways to unlock? YAY! that will be an extra long (4 minutes) LockPickingLawyer video. I expect the yellow hammer to come in.

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.

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!

we need a new reliable presence sensors most still lacking precisions

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.

5:47 the vain is a lot more intensive

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.

Whats to big deal my 2019 lg sm9000 already has chrome cast. And airplay.

So hue will reading my palm. So if it sees a bad future it wont open the door ? :P

Great video Brian - however your transition method is too fast, loud and obtrusive. (sorry)

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 😅

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My god the transitions... How many times do I need to hear... Swish....

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.

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

No HomeKit no thanks

LG decided to be irrelevant when they killed their phones.

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.

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