Which smart devices do you use in your home?

Rip buddy We’ll miss you

7:13: What he's really saying is: "If I showed you how to do this with non-proprietary software, I'd be out of a job."

Rest In Peace Grant, you made my childhood so enjoyable

My "brain" is a $35 raspberry pi.

Seems pretty low tech for a "home of the future"

"Everything has to speak the same language." "That's a lot of languages." I'm sorry what?

rip 🙏 Grant, thanks for making the world a better place with your talent, smarts, and charisma

And the Ford truck just won't go away

A lot of devices and programming for not a lot of convenience. *Overkill* if you ask me.

Loved watching grant on myth busters, Happy to see he has been able to go on to get different opportunities.

Watching this reminds me of how much I miss Grant. Rest will Grant, you changed the world. You will be remembered forever.

Thank you for all you’ve given us. We’ll miss you Grant. Rest in peace buddy.

THIS IS THE FUTURE! 4:02 (uses windows xp to program)

Home Assistant is an other free and opensoured platform for smart home too

I've been setting up a few houses with Home Assistant, an open source home automation system that has plugins for things like lights and tvs, all the way to BMW cars that have some sort of IOT integration. This system is not even compatible to Home Assistant which is cheaper and you have full control over everything.

Love and miss you always, Mr. Imahara

Rest in peace to this legend

Can't wait to see the whole house finished

**makes amazing probably million dollar house** **gets internet through AT&T....**

You say you're an engineer but you're afraid of hurting yourself while trying to tinker with home automation systems? This should be a dream part time project for any engineer!

The Verge has the blessing of KZfaq. I have never witnessed such a fast download of any other video. With regards to integration of appliances into your home, how does it feel to be blocked out of adding or modifying anything in YOUR home? So much for open technology. If I had to do it, I would go old school PLC.

Nope. This is ott and not really necessary. A lot of this stuff is achieved with far cheaper equipment and no "expert" necessary. Edit: he actually said this near the end of the video.

This is actually a pretty basic home integration.. I still appreciate that Grant is showing that it's not quite that simple to just buy a bunch it smart stuff and have it all work together. Like he said, this stuff will self-integrate with less intervention eventually, but you'd be surprised how quickly you can get into the weeds with this stuff. Especially in commercial environments where downtime can mean money being actively lost.

So, how much does all this cost?

This is nothing more than a slick home entrainment/security/multimedia installation with a glorified universal GUI. Cool, but by no means the home of the future. I'm sure this is exorbitantly over priced.

I just watched an ad for Smarter Homes

RIP to my childhood idol. You're one of the reason ill be an engineer in 1 month

I love these "Home of the future"-videos! Greetings from Germany

Putting all those wires though makes the home a lot less modular. That's the best advantage of wireless technologies in my opinion. Modularity would be a priority in my dream home, since changing stuff around revives my relationship with it and makes me have a more organic attention towards it. Modularity should most definitely not be underrated.

I have 3 Google homes spread out in the house. Wemo light dimmers for every room to control recessedights, nest thermostat, ring doorbell and floodlights, Logitech Harmony box setup. All pretty much integrate with Google home so I can control most of it with voice. Great video.

Awesome explanation. I am a Computer Engineer Technologist with at Data/IP background and a Journeyman Electrician. I currently have the simple setup you talked about. (Google Home, Chrome Cast, and Hue lights) I am also building a Data Center in my basement that will allow me to create APIs so I can integrate my Raspberry Pi with the system and, running a custom built app and Android Open Auto, allow me to remote start my older vehicles with voice command. I am also integrating the Pi's camera for dash cam and remote upload to my servers. Using virtualization I am also building personal, scaleable cloud services and media streaming services. All to be integrated with my mobile, home, and vehicle entertainment systems.

i'm studying home automation in france and it is cool to see how you do it in the othe side of the atlantic, i would love to go in the us to work there but the regulation are not the same

The subscription service is definitely not cool. It kinda seems like a scam because that system is so closed that you have to have a subscription and pay them every month, just because you might want to change something in the future. I'd just use Google Home, some Sonos speakers, Nest Smart Home devices and a Chromecast or two. I don't really watch TV anymore so that wouldn't be a issue.

when my country electricity is not reliable , you know I will sleep out side a lot with this smart every thing

RIP Grant Imahara!

I've been able to build my own connected in a home built in 1950. I use a combination of Samsung Smartthings as my hub, Hue lights, GE smart switches, Nest Thermostat, Yale door lock, Ring doorbell and IP cameras all controlled with Google Home. I'm not an IT guy at all but I've made it easy enough for my 3 year old son to be able to control. It also didn't cost me an arm and a leg and I don't need a "programmer" to program it for me.

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Apple’s HomeKit. HomeKit is the most complete interpretation of this, basically everything they did here can be done with HomeKit if you have the correct HomeKit enabled equipment, and there’s already a healthy list of compatible devices like lights, cameras, locks, thermostats, garage doors, security cameras, security systems, taps even friken blinds... the list goes on... I have my Philips hue lights and Logitech Circle 2 security cameras integrated with HomeKit, and I’m very keen on upgrading some more equipment to smarter HomeKit compatible solutions. What was showed in this video is very cool but the fact that it’s not very end user configurable (meaning needing these guys to come and make any changes because the end user isn’t allowed to) kinda, well, sucks!!! I’m very impressed with HomeKit so far, it’s still new and needs some work but even so it’s still very good and very capable at the moment and it can only get better with software updates and more and more HomeKit enabled equipment. Smart integration frameworks like HomeKit baked right into the products are the future, hopefully there will be a well recognised non Apple solution for all the Android and Windows users out there. Apple is able to get it right easily because of the niche they have in the market, they can define a framework like HomeKit and other companies respond because there’s a ton of potential customers using Apple devices who would be more likely to buy their products if it used HomeKit, ask yourself this, if their product sat next to a competitor an the shelf and one said ‘works with Apple HomeKit’ and the other didn’t which one do you think the owner of the shiny new iPhone would pick? There needs to be another universal framework standard like HomeKit to cater for the non Apple users, then smart integration will really start to take off. The solution in this video where you need to pay someone else to rewire you’re house and charge you a fee to come and make changes and visit you every so often is definitely not the future, that sounds like a hassle. Both my lights and cameras were setup in minutes and fully integrated with HomeKit straight away, and I can add to that with thermostats and taps and whatever the heck I want whenever I want and set it up how I like with no paid nerd needed to do any of that. That my friend is the future. Sure HomeKit can’t do exactly everything these guys could like with the xbox and PS4 but it does pretty much everything else and without the need of some third-party begging for a fee.

"everything gotta speak the same language" "wow, that's a lot of languages"

Rest In peace a innovator 🙏

wish i had 40k to set that up and a 1.8 million dollar home lol

The problem is that this tech will never be integrated because it comes from different sources. Houses of the future will be nothing like this. It only adds complexity to our lives, costs a lot of money and provides questionable benefits. I rather just get up and push a button.

This was REALLY disappointing guys, putting together a big name like Grant Imahara and The Verge to showcase 10-year-old technology? I have to say this is NOT the home of the future, this is the home of 2009 with an Echo Dot. Crestron/RTI/Control4 have been doing this for the uber-wealthy for decades, but nobody should waste their money on those systems anymore, they are being disrupted by true "Smart Home" technologies that are iterating features with each app update and you don't have to pay an integrator $500 to come out and a new device to your system. There is still a place for a central control system but it's not going to be an antiquated server in your closet, it will be an app on your tablet or phone hosted in the cloud with ever-improving technologies. Please call Nest/August/Sonos/Samsung/Philips/Amazon, get some hardware, rent a sweet Airbnb on the beach somewhere and reshoot this video. (I'd be happy to help!). I hate being negative but this really disappointed me, I expect more from The Verge and I've been with you since day 1.

They talk about how the Nest camera is closed and makes it inconvenient, then talk about how the integrator company as a whole is closed. So much for that.

Rest in Peace Grant Imahara...you will be missed

0:28 that’s definitely Hacker Typer...

Personally I would rather buy into the google based ecosystem, the assistant itself is better, but it integrates naturally with nest devices, as google owns nest, and allows seamless content control with chromecasts. Also I use an android phone so it integrates with that really nicely. It seems as if the same functionality could be achieved to the home with a couple of google home maxes and chromecasts and that the implemented system is needlessly more complex, expensive with a higher maintenance cost and ironically is backwards thinking. Personally I use a chromecast with a projector, google wifi and a google home.

I got all this done alone with my home more or less and did it all with smartthings, IFTTT and a weekend dialing it all in. the amount of money someone could save by not being lazy is amazing..

Grant Imahara was from Mythbusters! Finally remembered where I knew him from. Was just this itch in the back of my mind for the longest time while watching this series

Giant gas guzzling Ford truck. Overblown, proprietary electronics that can't be programmed by users. More stuff. More wires. This is some 1980s hellish vision of the future. The future we actually want is unobtrusive, minimal and integrated. Not this!

Too bad it doesn't have Google Home and Google Assistant integration, you could avoid "...tell butler..." by using shortcuts, plus of course, the GH / GA itself is a good service to have.

1:08 "Everything's gotta speak the same language" "Wow, that's a lot of languages!"

Please clarify the $30 a month is probably for Domotz. It is a remote management that’s part of Luxul Network gear. It monitors all of your network devices and lets you know if something has issues.

"Home of the future" "PlayStation 4 for gaming" This isn't adding up

All I want is a rack mount in my home. Relying on the cloud for all my automation makes me wary.

2:26 is where I started drooling.

After watch a couple years of stuff like the HGTV Smart Home specials where the central control was an iPad with 30 different apps, it’s refreshing to see an example of an actual smart home integrator utilizing the consumer-grade gear. That being said, as I’m planning my own smart home, my plan is to utilize equipment that already shares a common platform where necessary. Some items don’t “need” to participate in automations or scenes. Smart washer/dryer combos, or smart irrigation controllers are examples of this IMO. Items like that are fine being stand-alone systems for my use-case. Everyone else’s usage may vary.

I would not buy into a system that wouldn't let me tinker and customize. I find it condescending to think that individuals cannot handle their own home technology. It just takes a system designed to recover. The monthly fee is too high in my opinion and I hope would scale down to as their adoption scaled up, but it is important to note that addressing software and security updates as part of a monthly fee is fair and critical to smart home safety given the networked nature of IoT devices. I'd like to see an episode on addressing the privacy and security of smart homes and consideration of what policies these devices have on data collection and sharing. Where devices report eg does the device only talk to your home network or rely on a company server outside the home, what data is collected about each device use and what their individual and aggregate analysis may reveal. There are many hidden elements to the smart home of the future that the buyers should consider too, but are hidden from view in the software and policies of device manufacturers and software.

I have a few points, first the Ford truck is totally out of place, then its so stupid to use a locked down, paid platform. One could get the same for free with harmony and compatible devices. Or it could get even more advanced with Home Assistant (a open source free python project). At last you should consider security. As you combine everything in one hub, only that one hub has to be compromised to change basically anything, even locking/unlocking the home.

Man I freaking love this series!!

Love the touch panel graphics...

This is so overkill. What happens when the company stops updating their app? You’re left with an old version. The issue with this is there’s a $30 per monthly fee. What a rip! Google Assistant, HomeKit and Alexa is where it’s at.

Apple's Home / HomeKit makes this super easy, and is constantly being updated. Personally, I only buy devices that are compatible with HomeKit. This way I can personally configure any scenes or accessories I need using a single app while also allowing changes at any time; effectively doing everything that their $30/month service is offering and more. With Apple pushing software based HomeKit support in their new APIs, I expect to see many new devices enter the market, and support added to existing devices. AppleTV, HomePod, Phillips Hue, and Koogeek would bring much of the functionality shown here, with better Siri shortcut support coming in the future.

I use Google Home products but the main brain of my smart home is through Home Assistant via a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (aka HASSIO). It's a lot cheaper and more customizable than that 'brain' they have. Can integrate Google Home, Z-Wave, LIFX, a lot of cheap lights, cheap ip cameras, and you can make your own sensors too. I'm surprised every day about how powerful it is, and how active the community develops it. If you want something like that house, and you have time to learn, you should check out Home Assistant.

When you said Alexa , my Alexa replied back lol

Wow. It indeed is a future house, but I guess there is a long way to go!! Anyways, make a budget future house video in future! Best of luck!

But what if RTI project will close in 5-10 years? Like some "lifetime" subscriptions/plans have already been cancelled

The only reason I'm subscribed to The Verge channel is this series :D I just love it!

*It actually makes your house LESS secure* . As a European we tried it here in France and ended up with a HUGE electricity bill -they put all the convectors & devices on. And all windows/doors OPENED when getting back from holidays. *The system was hacked* ! Since then I have been degrading the stuff, suppressed the Wi-Fi -4 stories house. Put Ethernet + adaptators for the new Apples. Right now I'm replacing the cameras with "invisible" ones. In order to keep my house CLOSED to the world outside. A friend of mine also found her house often opened. After investigation, an *army device* was interfering with hers. Each time they moved their trucks, the garage/ *house was opened for several hours* .

You can achieve almost the same level of automation using products such as Smartthings Hub and Harmony Hub. It's more cost effective and easier to customize. You don't need to be an expert programmer to add new equipment or create new scenes.

"Its a supercomputer running on this" HAHAHAHAHA HA HAHA HAHAHAHA okay baby, and i have a ferrari.

Rest in peace Grant, you will be missed.

House Guest : "Hey how you turn on your the t.v. ? "Homeowner : "sighs"

So...you're going to pay this guy $30 a month to hide a few cables, neutral the primary benefit of Sonos speakers (wireless connectivity), and program an app you're not allowed to reprogram? Seriously? They aren't even creating their own custom version of Alexa, which they should be able to do. And what happens if they go out of business tomorrow? Then you're stuck with a system you can't do anything with. And it's not like you'll be getting a refund. And then you have to switch everything to another system altogether. Austin has fiberoptic interent, so I don't see any reason why a mesh network isn't reliable enough and you have to go wired. What a freaking waste of money.

WHOA! So many negative comments, I am surprised how many people are bashing a high level, entry system addressing and embracing new technology. I for one think it was well explained especially for somebody who is new to home automation. Here a couple of my points, followed by my system: First, People who have a smart home now have probably endured the constant growth and changes and maybe are not experts, but they do know the inner workings of all the keywords that are in place such as zwave, ITTT, etc.. For this technology to grow, there will need to be some transitions to companies that do this for you and YES, they will charge and people will be willing to pay for support and just the fact that they know they hit a button or say a phrase and it works. For those of you that want to go the free route, then go for it (myself included) but know that when a firmware, power outage, or even new technology hits, we will have some work to do. My system: 1. Samsung Smart-things hub (Brain) 2. Multiple RTSP Wireless Cameras 3. Mesh Unifi Wireless AP's 4. Edgerouter X Firewall - NAT Router 5. Static IP's with DSL and Cable connectivity 6. Most light switches replaced with GE-Z-Wave switches 7. Many Outlets replaced with GE-Zwave-Outlets 8. Nest Thermostat (V2) 9. Yamaha 685 7.2 Receiver 10. Vivint Security system tied into Z-Wave Network 11. All tv's have Google Chromecast 12. Moderate programming of scenes / things with smart-things 13. Z-Wave Motion Detectors 14. Philips Hue Bulbs in NON switch controlled lights. 15. Google Homes / Mini's throughout the house 16. Finally I use ITTT as the glue for any device and for trigger events. I have built what I have piece by piece over the last 4 years and I am very happy with it. There are some growing pains but it gets easier as time goes on and I find it fun to innovate new technology and add to the growing list of applications to join together applications that don't have API's, ITTT has played a key role, and not being associated with them, give them, google and samsung 5 stars for creativity and inovation.

Anyone know the name/brand of the cabinet in the video?

$30/mo? haaahahahaahhaahaahaahahhaahaahaano!!

My main issue being, it has one point of failure, the access point...

This is such a fantastic series. Thank you for making it!

I love having a smart home and have enjoyed doing it and updating it with new technologies. The main brains for mine is using a Raspberry PI 3B with OpenHAB2 software. Most of the switches are modified Sonoff switches with MQTT capabilities, an Insteon thermostat and HUB as well as Alexa and a few Chromecasts and Firesticks. With OpenHAB2 you can communicate with around a hundred different brands of devices through what they call binding and more are popping up all the time.

I love Grant and cool video! But: the damn Ford truck is so hilariously out of place in this video. And always placed as if just coincidentally in the shot :D It's hard to take a video about energy awareness serious if the sponsor is a company like ford. Is that the reason an electric car isn't a part of the modern home in the video? Maybe, maybe not. But this gnaws on the integrity of the piece for me.

Damn grant getting lied to the “programmer” just wanted to not have his job be useless by having someone else diy themselves around something like getting a new system.

It cost a lot of money, that probably in the future will be cheaper, but right now it's priceless. I would be happy to live there, but I know by two days will be enough...

good setup, but not mindblowing

Maybe I am wrong on this, but this looks like a pain to maintain...

Omg Grant! I've missed you. One of my childhood memories ❤️

logitech harmony does just that. I have the same setup. Btw, if you use a good AP like the ubiquity, you can support dozens of devices

Lol there goes your solar efficiency....

This Mac that runs Windows

Even tho he said by the end that most of this can be done easily through Google home and Philips hue, Logitech does well with wifi remotes and hidden wires and stuff can be achieved

Nest Correction: Nest used to support a relatively closed API; however, Nest (a Google Home company) has been working on Thread Group's Thread network protocols which are available through Open Thread (by Nest). Thread is based on IEEE 802.15.4 with IPv6 which is referred to as 6LoWPAN. Thread is absolute for routing between IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.4. I am developing tools and hardware which will use Thread to end Bluetooth in the very high-end smart homes. Because Thread is open, Nest is no longer using a closed API.

Program it yourself :P

Rip if he gets hacked lol

Anyone know where I could get a rack like this? Or was it custom made from existing furniture?

"everything's gotta speak one language" "wow that's a lot of languages"

What is a sleeping brain's favorite musical rock band ? REM

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ is all i see.

I use an Amazon Alexa device together with my self designed 'WiFiDomo' smart devices. RGB ledstrip through the entire house, led dimmers where white light is needed, the WiFiDomo Alexa to IR remote converter and smart switches that scan the entire house for presets. The entire system is modular and can be used with only 1 module upto as many as you need. Every module has it's own web-interface and can be used without any 3rd party software. (Easy integradable in your own interface/software)

What program are you using to protect the home network.

....the truck... Ford, we know you have trucks ffs