Amazon’s NEW Devices 2022: Home Automation Surprises!

What do you think matters more, the hardware or the software?

like the features, setup was difficult for some of my devices (August Door lock, https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxhB5YOMNj04GuoAosExygP4cH-dKeb4aB Bose speaker)… but all switches and outlets (5), thermostat, tankless water heater. Unfortunately all I can do is turn on/off Bose. It doesn't support volume or changing channels, but I believe that is due to the particular speaker I have…. Worth getting if you already have other devices to use it with… I don't sit around and ask Alexa questions much so that doesn't really matter to me….

Cat vs Astro 😅

When is the Halo rise coming to Europe?

Yet Alexa is very dumb…

I just need the robot to grab things in the fridge for me

Any update on the new remote switches functionality?

I just purchased the echo dot 5gen last week with the clock and I like it a lot. I have the 4th Gen dot without the clock stowed away somewhere and I was too lazy to find it. Yesterday I heard the 4th Gen has been updated to some of the features of the 5gen. Oh well.

This would be cool if these devices weren’t connected to the internet. A closed network within your home would be nice.

Just hand over the kingdom to amazon. Competition what Competition 😅

Astro on Roborock s7 maxv would be insane

Save electric don’t buy this crap and do things the old way

My fifth gen echo dot w/ clock has a temp sensor, but I can't seem to use it for routines in the Echo app. So for now I have a 4th gen echo controlling the temp in my kid's room. Also the clock seems to be on all the time even though I have the settings turned all the way down on it.

Mr Smart Home Solver, I wonder if you could address the temperature sensor in the 5th gen Echo. I purchased one to turn on and off the oil filled rad in the chilly UK and I've found the temp sensor just doesn't trigger routines properly. There appears to be a large time between unprompted temp reads by the device and so far I've found it unusable for using with a routine. Can you put it through its paces and give your tips or opinions please.?

"maybe you won't need a sensor for every door anymore" me who has no sensors for any door 😀👍

I like the 2nd gen remote with volume buttons and no app buttons. The newer ones have too many buttons. I just want power, navigation, back, play/pause, FF, rewind, volume, and mute. It's perfect. I don't want a bunch of extra crap on the remote or I have to divert attention to figuring out what friggin button to push, it's easier to just tell Alexa what I want.

A dream come true. Surveillance of each private space. And people are even paying for it.

I love the idea of switches to make things happen, you know, like turning the light on and off, a bit like… er… a light switch.
"Where's the switch dear?"
"Just walk past the light switch and it's down the corridor on the right."
"OK, back in a minute."

Why do I want to hit things that I can yell at from across the room?

Pay to allow Amazon into your home.
What could possibly go wrong?

Loads more plastic shit they copied the designs from other people to sell to more idiots thinking cheap plastic shit is worthwhile.

Meanwhile, crappy influencers act like the toilet water, flushing things along.

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horrible .. this video, all those devices .. insane, humanity is doomed