Smart Home Weekly: HomeKit Rumors, Slow Echo, Harmony API & More

This is the Smart Home Weekly podcast from the Smart Home Show for the week of January 26, 2015. You can get the written version of this (w/links to stories) here: www.smarthomeweekly.net The stories covered in this week's show: -HomeKit bridge for Z-Wave/Zigbee looks to be a thing -Xiaomi says it's gonna show-me (or us) it's smart home wares soon -Lowe's getting deeper into smart home installation services -OIC a new smart home open source framework called IoTivity -Amazon's Echo and the ridiculously long backlog time -Harmony's new API -Canary ships -Neeo kickstarts -Almond+ ships You can subscribe to the Smart Home Show here: http://www.technology.fm/thesmarthomeshow/ Follow me on Twitter here for daily updates and to converse: https://twitter.com/michaelwolf via Knit