Episode 162 - All Things Google

-Google Home Hub

https://store.google.com/us/product/google_nest_hub?hl=en-US

-Nest Hub Max

https://store.google.com/us/product/google_nest_hub_max?hl=en-US

-New Branding Google Nest

-New Device Google Nest Hub Max

-Added Built in Nest Cam

-Gesture Recognition

-Bigger display

-Person recognition

-Better Speakers - Sub built in

-$229

-State of where things are at with Google Assistant in the Smart Home Space today

-Playing catchup to Amazon but investing heavily and moving fast

-Heavy investment in CES

-More integrations with more vendors

-How many devices in Adam's home are integrated

-What's missing?

-No ring - feels glaring

https://www.techhive.com/article/3332143/rings-founder-says-hes-open-to-working-with-google-assistant.html

-No Moen (Announced) / No Delta Faucet support, either

-No TiVo

-No Rachio

-Schlage - has integration but can't run simultaneously with HomeKit

-Very quick response time

-Voice understanding is good

-Wake word

-Robotic John Legend

-State reporting requirement

-Feels like moving towards something bigger

-Model for creating new types of devices

-Have worked with all 3 major ecosystems now in adding new device types

-Apple has device types they need to create and release

-Amazon has new model for this called Alexa Primitives

https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/acf7689b-f118-469e-b452-0c4da8d3e61a/new-alexa-smart-home-developer-tools-enable-seamless-voice-control-of-any-device-and-any-feature

-Great talk about this at ReInvent last year

https://youtu.be/KQuMrfePbDQ

-Google has an almost Lego like approach to this, where they have created all the pieces and you can put them together in a way to represent your device

-Much more extensible

-Requires less time and work from them via Knit