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We were pleased to welcome Meg Trite with MaxMyTV onto this weeks show. The company came across our radar via a recent CEPro Article. We thought the product looked very interesting and invited Meg on for a conversation about their unique approach to home automation.
Whether you are an end user, DIY enthusiast, or smart home professional, the CEDIA EXPO in Denver is a show worth getting excited about! The HomeTech team will be in attendance at this years show. We thought we would take an opportunity in this episode to let you know what we will be looking for at the EXPO.
Whether you're selling a home or buying a home there's probably going to be some technology that gets left behind or comes with the new house. This week Seth and Jason chat about what to take and what to toss when moving a smart home.
If you are a fan of the HomeTech Podcast, and aren't familiar with Mike Wolf, you should be! Mike is a good friend of the show, and a great source of knowledge and insight when it comes to the smart home market. He is the founder and chief analyst at NextMarket Insights, a premier market research firm in the connected home space. As a fellow podcaster Mike hosts the NextMarket Podcast as well as the Smart Home Show, which both come highly recommended. Mike also runs the Technology.fm podcast collective, where we at HomeTech are honored to be listed.
On episode 27 of the HomeTech podcast we were joined by co-founder and CEO of Chui, Shaun Moore. Chui claims to be the "world's most intelligent doorbell". And after our conversation with Shaun, it would be hard to argue against their claim. The concept of a a smart, connected doorbell is not completely novel. There are a number of products on the market that can alert to you to someone being at your door, and send you alerts, notifications, and live streaming video based on this information. And while Chui can do all of this, what takes the product to the next level is it's facial recognition technology.
It is estimated by the EPA that up to 50% of landscape water usage in the US is wasted by over-watering. This means that on average Americans are spending roughly twice as much money to water their lawns as they should be. Perhaps even more disturbing though, is the fact that this wastage is taking place in the midst of major droughts throughout the country.
In broad terms, the smart home market can be divided somewhat cleanly into a few different camps. On one hand you've got the traditional dealer-installed technologies like Crestron, Savant, and Control4. On the other end of the spectrum you've got home automation-in-a-box solutions like SmartThings, Revolv, and the Staples Connect. But somewhere in the middle lies an entire community and ecosystem of products designed for the more hardcore hobbyist / enthusiast crowd, or as we like to call them 'prosumers'.
On this week's show Jason and Seth were pleased to welcome Macworld Senior Editor Chris Breen onto the show for a conversation all about Apple's entry into the Smart Home market with the HomeKit initiative.
On this week's show Jason and Seth discuss the weeks news in home technology and invent a new game based around the latest tech buzzwords.
On this week's episode Jason and Seth discuss the sales process related to buying a custom integrated system.
This week Jason and Seth discuss the news from the past few weeks and integrator's disgust of certain smart TV features.
On this week's episode we take a break from the news and discuss 5 really useful tips everyone should know before starting any home technology project. This list comes from our experiences working with customers on projects past and present.
On this week's episode Jason and Seth chat about the weeks news and what we may see turn up at Google IO.
On this week's show Jason and Seth cover the news in home automation and chat with Jason Hanna of Embue. Embue is a suite of products and sensors that allow you to better manage your heating and cooling.
You've heard the annoucement and read up on the basics of HomeKit over the past week. Now you want more. Welcome to HomeKit 201. On this week's show Jason and Seth talk about the week's news and take a deep dive into Apple's new HomeKit framework announced at WWDC 2014.
Ever been cold in one room and hot in another? Ever wish there was a way to make everyone in the family comfortable no matter which part of the house they were in? On this week's episode Jason and Seth chat with Dipul Patel, co-founder and CEO of ecovent - a startup who may have solved this problem once and for all.
Shopping for a Smart Home used to mean one of two things. You either bought a kit from a company like Insteon or HAI and spent countless hours tinkering to make things work. Or you went with a dealer-installed system like Control4, Crestron, or Savant.
On this weeks show Jason and Seth discuss the weeks news and interview Ohad Zeira, Director of Product Management/Growth Platforms at Belkin. They discuss Belkin's WeMo Home Control Solution and use cases every day users of the platform use to solve every day problems.
In Episode 12 Seth and Jason talk about video distributions systems and how they can be helpful in removing equipment clutter from your home. If you like this episode of HomeTech please drop us some feedback on iTunes or HomeTech.fm/feedback.
