After a week off the HomeTech team is back in action. We are excited to present a new episode featuring Tim McInerny of Savant as our featured guest. As discussed on our recent CEDIA Wrap-Up Special Savant managed to steal the show this year with the unveiling of their new app. Completely re-designed from the ground up, the so-called "Savant App" is a very modern, clean, and extremely intuitive user interface. Not only is the new app easy for integrators to deploy, but in keeping with current industry trends, it also empowers end users to create, edit, and modify their own scenes. In our conversation with Tim we cover the new app extensively. We also discuss Savant's history as a company, and what differentiates their product offerings in an increasingly crowded smart home space. We have been looking forward to sharing this conversation with you. We hope you enjoy!
Show Notes
- Sonos gets $130M in additional funding
- Control4 paid $900,000 in cash for EV
- EV was making $1.3m/year in revenue (most all of it from Control4 driver sales, not much URC)
- 52% from one driver -- probably Sonos
- Control4 closing EV driver store 12/31/2014
- All 3rd party drivers now being sold through the HouseLogix store
- Savant - Luxury Home Automation
- Savant App - iTunes
- TrueControl App - iTunes