The Biggest Smart Home Trends Of 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ค. 2024
- The smart home is forever changing, and 2024 will be a crazy year when it comes to smart home trends. Watching today's video will keep you up to date on everything that's changing in 2024 with smart homes, home automation, and tech in general. We'll walk through the true introduction of smart robots into your home, the resurgence of voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and maybe even Chat GPT, and we'll talk about technology like Bluetooth, Matter, and buzzwords like AI, Machine Learning, and Multimodal.
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Timecodes for today's video:
00:00 - The Biggest Smart Home Trends of 2024
0:50 - The Resurgence of Voice Assistants
4:42 - Paying a Few Bills
5:38 - Robot Invasion
7:40 - Multimodal is a Big Word
9:11 - Rapid Fire Smart Home Trends
12:31 - Bluetooth to Infinity
14:19 - Matter Doesn't Matter
16:11 - The Changing Of the Guard
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Brian - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
If there is a robot that will dust my house or clean the bathroom, I will mortgage my house to pay for it. If not, I will wait.
LOL! Don't mortgage the house Kara!
I live in New Mexico so between the wind and my slacker dogs tracking dust into the house the chore is endless. We get so much dust that most of us don't really bother dusting,we just tolerate it. I might not mortgage the house, maybe a couple of the dogs.
I would love a robot that helps clean dust.
As before, always choose local control over cloud where possible.
There will always be issues in the smart home space with companies and products shifting focus or disappearing.
They should incorporate alexa /google into overhead lights, ceiling mounts. Same for speakers. Create a clean space. Also smart home devices need to function off grid. No internet needed. More secure.
There were a few speaker/light combos actually! They didn't go so well, but I thought it was a good idea too
Killed this video, Brian. I absolutely agree with you on the future of robots, voice assistants and multi-modal push. Solid and amazing video!!
Thanks so much Chris!
Great insights, Brian. I hope to see a transformation to Matter/Thread, but think this will be multi-year and vendor by vendor. With the latest release of SmartThings firmware and app updates, most of the things that were broken or inconsistent are working again! Plus, finally a hub backup system. So SmartThings is out of my doghouse. I agree that there will be a lot of winners and losers due to Matter/Thread and lots more consumer adoption if/when it rolls out. One of the things that slows down every smart home purchase I make is searching for its compatibility with SmartThings and Amazon. If the consumers can simply buy an item without wondering WHAT it will work (and having to hunt down the Z-wave/Zigbee or proprietary communication) with because it (via Matter/Thread) will work with everything, that will remove a huge point of resistance to people buying "smart" stuff. And if the lightbulb or the light switch prices comes down to something closer to a regular bulb or light switch, that will help too. Keep up the good work!
I'm glad to hear ST's working for you! You're right on the transformation of Matter/Thread too. Multi-year, and by company in a lot of cases (which...wasn't supposed to be the case)
Thanks for sharing your projections on 2024 automation. I always appreciate your insightful videos. How did you set up the ChatGPT to interact with you at the beginning? That was an excellent demo and I think worth doing a longer video explanation on. I did it with a Siri shortcut, but it was nowhere near as good as what you showed.
Hey Jay, I could do a quick demo of that if folks are interested! It's really just the Chat GPT app downloaded and then I hit the little headset button on the right before I get into that chat with the assistant! You could do it in a matter of minutes!
Loved the video Bri as always. Always look forward to seeing what “may” become available to us all. Looking forward to having my very own voice assistant modelled upon my wife, in the fact that in its own mind will always be right with the introduction of AI assistance. Just hoping that the bigger platforms such as Amazon Alexa and Samsung SmartThings etc don’t decide to simply do their own thing but make compatibility easier with less errors within routines and that devices don’t simply disappear.
Keep up the great work, you always supply enthusiasm in abundance which really helps within the smart home scene.
Thanks so much Rich! Have a great one!
Nice and thoughtful post, Brian. I think you'll be more right than wrong in the coming year. I think Matter is way overhyped and for me, it hasn't done a single thing I really needed, even though I have a number of Matter devices. Give me the likes of Lutron and Aqara that already work with almost everything. Video is interesting. High (4K+) video requires large file sizes and higher streaming bandwidth than many have. 1080 is a good compromise for speed, but of course, isn't enough for some details (license plates). A camera that stores locally at 4K+ and streams at 1080 would work well for my needs. I want Aqara to come out with a good outdoor cordless/solar camera that works with the same services as their indoor cameras. I think many of us are getting a bit of "smart home fatigue" and it will be a challenge for folks like you to keep it interesting and fun. I know you can do it and will do it. Once again, Happy New Year!
Thanks Hugh! And Happy New Year!
We were just talking today about how we'll approach keeping things interesting. I think we can do it, but here's to hoping!
Great overview - informative with just the right touch of humor. Thanks, Brian!
My pleasure! Thank you!
Thanks for the update. I really hope that Bluetooth Auracast thing might help make it so we can connect Bluetooth speakers to an Echo AND play music "Everywhere". That would be cool. Also, I would love to see that improved Zigbee thing they were talking about come to fruition. Maybe they'll make it a priority now that Matter is having some problems.
I hope so too Brad!
Great update, length of video was spot on.
Glad you liked it! Thanks!
Since you mentioned Govee, I've recently been feeling like they've quickly expanded with their products. Over the past few months I'm seeing tons of different heaters, air filters, air quality monitors, LED/light related products, etc. Looking forward to see what they (and other) companies come up with in 24.
They have lots of good appliances that go along with their lights. We have featured some of them and I've really enjoyed them
They have good lights but the worst app I've ever used, it's so overly complicated and ugly ass UI ... very off putting
Auracast could be a game changer for a theater, gyms, or other large venues. Our senior community is looking forward to it for a theater and gym tvs on site. Nice video and information
I can't wait to see Auracast really take hold.
Really looking forward to an actual smart assistant with llm behind it versus the current interface.
It would be a new dawn.
Great thoughtful video and good start to 2024
Thanks Roger!
The funny thing about saying every year there are changes, it always looks like there are changes, but in reality often the changes are barely incremental. I think AI is a big change for the home. AI is also an area that needs very careful consideration as it could be dangerous if left to get out of hand.
Paul Hibbert will like the idea of Philips / Signify winding back 😆
But how can I sell video views? 🤣🤣
It's totally incremental, and I gave props to that with the discussion around robotics. I think it's finally here :)
Great video Brian keep it up 👍👍
Thanks so much!! Have a great one!
Brian, where do things stand on Local Voice Control with Alexa and/or Eero? Recently, we had our new fiber internet setup go down for a number of hours. I thought from googling that Alexa and Eero had provided a method to switch to Local Voice Control via the zigbee hubs built-in, but I found the online info to not match my experiences. I am not interested in the M3 Hub if it's already included in what I already have. What did you learn about Alexa and/or Eero's Local Voice Control? Can you do a video on it?
They don't really stand anywhere...
Voice based local control has never come together. You could potentially do local control with the ZigBee hub, but not by voice!
Does that help??
I knew it wouldn't take long before ChatGPT got into a voice assistant. Seems a natural progression.
:)
I made a video about the commoditization of the smart home industry about a year ago. You’re spot on, but what do you think will separate these brands?
Early! I wasn't sure it was happening till more recently.
I don't think much will separate brands, that's the thing. Like basic bulbs...that will turn into the listing that makes the most sense for the Walmarts of the world.
Great video like usual. I hope that the robots expand in the lawncare arena as the available robots can’t handle large lots.
Yeah and they should be able to! This shouldn't be that hard!
Thanks!
Too kind! Thank you!
A more conversational voice assistant experience has been prophesied for some time now, but it feels within reach now with the rise in functionality of GPT & large language models, I think that will bring more people into the smart home community.
However I don’t think most smart home users continue to use their voice assistants as their primary control method when they get deeper into smart home building
For those users (of which I consider myself one), I think AI is more likely to be utilised to make increasingly contextual automation suggestions based upon a users behaviours & use of their home
You usually have a good read on how people will use this stuff! I am still hoping that the contextual nature of it leads us to a place of it being easy to control our homes. Then I think people will rely on complex automation less, and that would be just fine with me!
You're not the boss of me, lol. Great presentation sir. Thanks again.
But I'm the CEO!
Thanks Brian.
Thank you Ron!
For Amazon, I hope they layer it as don't need a LLM to tell the time and it passes those (here is what I found on the web) responses to the LLM instead. However, given current money grabs and loss in some divisions, Alexa may be moved from a loss leader and offer the LLM experience as a bolt-on for few more of those precious dollars onto Prime, like advert-free bolt-on's coming.
It is the local open-source voice experience I and many are after, cutting the chains of service dependence as much as possible.
Honestly I’d be willing to fork over a few bucks a month if the experience was good enough.
What I want is Alexa to use local control for smart home stuff. Local home assistant connection and control would be amazing and then cloud for other inquiries that are more complex.
great video
Thank you!
I agree matter does not matter! I didn't realize anything was broken Z wave has worked for years for me with zero issues. I buy a Z wave device. I pair it with my hub. I'm done. Personally, I avoid anything that's wifi connected, clogging up my router. That's why I have Z wave. I recently made the jump from smart things to home assistant, built my own raspberry pi 4 Installed the software, and I have had zero issues! I'm currently looking for a replacement for my Amazon thermostat, Because it does not work with smart things or any other ecosystem for that matter. If anybody has any suggestions for a good looking and responsive Z wave thermostat, I would love to hear it. I'm actually looking into building my own because I've been unable to find one.
I had found a zigbee series of thermostats from Sinope. Those are nice, simple. Not sure if Honeywell carries a Z-Wave model either, but those seem to do alright for folks.
@@AutomateYourLife Looks like they are all Zigbee or Wifi.
@@AutomateYourLife I wish I could find something as stylish as the nest. but it's really in a locked down ecosystem and its wi fi. All the Z wave thermostats I've ever used are so plain looking.
In addition to that vacuum adding water to a humidifier, they should link it to a cat/dog water station.
100%! Love that!
Some very good insights. Some other things that might be worth discussing in 2024:
How do companies reconcile subscription fatigue with the need for recurring revenue?
Is there a path for Thread to succeed even if Matter fails?
Will "Works with Home Assistant" supercede "Works with Matter" and "Works with Homekit" as the best guide to what technologies to choose for your smart home?
I looooooove those questions. I think they're all SO interesting to tackle.
I hope 2024 brings you lots of love and success!!!
Same to you!!!
Nice t shirt... classic one
12:88 I mean 8K tvs are about $2k-$10k right now at any time and have been coming down about 20% in price every year.. Like right now you can't really buy a FHD display over 20 inches anymore the industry have moved on... But the funny thing is there is so few conent for it like beyond TH-cam, Flagship phone videos and Video games their isn't much to do on them.
True!
Long time no see hope everything is good
Hey thanks Ethan! Nice to see you!
I'm not sold on the consumer level Robots especially given the trend of consumers pulling back spending. Besides feels like 3d TVs at this point. And I prolly dont need to say this, but I would bet on your analysis. As for the trend of AI and Machine learning being used wrong. People have doing that for a while..haha. I just assume they are using those words to describe a decision tree based on a really big if else statement.
Oh I don't know who will buy them yet, but that S10 is selling like hotcakes! There's a market for it, it just has to be done right :)
Isn't Aqara owned by Huawei?
No
Didn't google already state their assistance Ai on the Google Home is not the priority & will be the last place it comes to? Which is stupid, it should be the first.
I think we'll see Amazon early, and then Google will rush to catch up
I have been saying Matter doesn't Matter for months. 😀 What a total mess that entire effort has been.
As far as home robots, I will not buy anything in that space until I see something like the Tesla Optimus bot offered for home use. Everything else is obsolete when you would buy it.
Thanks for the look ahead!
The Tesla looks interesting! We will see what gets released at CES though! Could be some wild stuff soon.
More homey pro vids please - you got me excited to ditch Samsung !!
They're coming. Starting work on them this week after CES
Matter is still a joke, My Google Home & Nest Hub Gen 2 MATTER jus does not work Google home displays a Thread network that does not exist & Google support is a joke. We need more working Border routers & controllers.
I don't know why Google takes so long to do anything
Great review. The AI for Voice Assistants sounds great, but I want more than just information retrieval. When it suggested that movie, I wanted it to be able to play it.
AURACAST seems to have some good accessibility features
You're right. Play the movie on the Fire TV, which is what Amazon's been working towards!
Looking very saturated today. #FeedTheAlgorithm
The problem with AI systems is they only know what yo7 tell them. The ones I’ve tried are garbage- biased and inaccurate. Hard pass
Let's hope they continue to improve
Yes but I’m not holding my breath @@AutomateYourLife
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I'll answer with...I'm Canadian. We don't trump.
Thanks!
You're too good Big Bear!