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In der ersten Episode im neuen Jahr gehen Tom und André die Themen an, die sich über die Feiertage angesammelt haben. Seitens Home Automation geht es um Tom's neue UniFi Gegensprechanlage und ein Softwareupdate bei Phillips Hue, welches nun das Zusammenfassen mehrerer Hue Bridges erlaubt. Im Bereich Konsumation sprechen die Beiden über die AppleTV Serie "Silo" und die zugehörige Buchtriologie, die MetaQuest 3S und dem Amazon Echo Spot von André. Zu guter Letzt geht es um den 38c3 und da vor allem um den Talk, der ein nicht zu vernachlässigendes Datenleak bei einem deutschen Autohersteller zu Tage gebracht hat.

”Pilot Pete” Harmon, Patrice Brend'Amour, and Chuck Joiner kick off the first part of MacVoices 2024 Holiday Gift Guide #4  with a wide range of picks, from expensive to stocking stuffers, books to audio, and more. (Part 1)  This MacVoices is supported by Notion, the single AI tool that does it all. The new Notion AI is a single AI tool that does it all: search across Notion and other apps, generate docs in your own style, analyze PDFs and images, and chat with you about anything. Try Notion AI for free at notion.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Links: Patrice Brend'amour's Picks: The Convergence Series by Craig Alanson (Audio recommended) https://amzn.to/3ZwUUAe Philips Hue Ensis Pendant Light https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us/p/hue-white-and-color-ambiance-ensis-pendant-light/046677588366   Pete Harmon's Picks: Aluratek Wireless Adapter for Apple CarPlay https://aluratek.com/collections/wireless-apple-carplay-android-auto/products/wireless-car-adapter-for-carplay Hey Dude Men's Wally Sox | Men's Shoes | Men's Lace Up Loafers https://amzn.to/3ZAvWQK HeyDude.com   Chuck Joiner's Picks: Gator Frameworks Desktop Clamp-On Studio Monitor and Speaker Stand - Set of 2 https://amzn.to/3BdY5DF Pyle Speaker Stand Pair of Sound Play 1 and 3 Holder - Telescoping Height Adjustable from 26” - 52” Inch High Heavy Duty Three-point Triangle Base w/ Floor Spikes and 9” Square Platform https://amzn.to/3CP9udt Kasa Smart Plug Mini 15A, Apple HomeKit Supported, Smart Outlet Works with Siri, Alexa & Google Home https://amzn.to/3BmKUQK   Guests: Patrice Brend'amour is the creator, advocate and Product Manager of a global healthcare software initiative, which is not only pushing the industry to provide user-centered solutions using the latest advances in UX and technology, but also advancing the sharing of medical information between healthcare providers across the world. She is also an avid podcaster, mainly in the technology space, as well as a maintainer and contributor to a number of open source projects. Everything she does can be linked to from The Patrice, You can follow her on Twitter, and engage with her on the podcast, Foodie Flashback. “Pilot Pete” Harmon is a professional avaitor, co-host of MacGeek Gab and co-host of So There I Was. He can be reached on X as @PilotPete.   Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:      http://macvoices.com      Twitter:      http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Our third 2024 MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide features picks from Rosemary Orchard, Jeff Gamet, David Ginsburg, and Chuck Joiner. Some unusual non-tech picks are included, as well as several practical items that everyone should consider. (Part 1) http://traffic.libsyn.com/maclevelten/MV24283.mp3 Today's MacVoices is supported by 1Password and their new 1Password Extended Access Management. Security for the way we work today, Learn about the problems it solves at 1Password.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Links: Rosemary Orchard's Picks: Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter & Airplay 2 Receiver - Wireless Streaming for Apple Devices to Bluetooth Speakers - Optical & 3.5mm Speaker Inputs https://amzn.to/491LzDT Anker USB C Cable, 4 ft 2-in-1 USB C to USB C Cable 140W Max, Fast Charging for iPhone 16 Series, MacBook, iPad, and More https://amzn.to/3ZkDBSO David Ginsburg's Picks: 3 in 1 Charging Station for iPhone 16/15/14/13/12 Series, Travel Charger for Multiple Devices https://amzn.to/4921i5L Elgato Stream Deck +, Audio Mixer, Production Console and Studio Controller https://amzn.to/4g32tUN Jeff Gamet's Picks: ExcelMark Personalized Book Embosser https://amzn.to/3ZkG8MR SketchBox https://getsketchbox.com/ Chuck Joiner's Picks: Audioengine A5+ Wireless Bluetooth Bookshelf Speakers https://amzn.to/4fJmSym Philips Hue Bloom White and Color Ambiance Smart Lamp, Works with Amazon Alexa, Apple Homekit and Google Assistant https://amzn.to/416DknV   Guests: Jeff Gamet is a technology blogger, podcaster, author, and public speaker. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and the TextExpander Evangelist for Smile. He has presented at Macworld Expo, RSA Conference, several WordCamp events, along with many other conferences. You can find him on several podcasts such as The Mac Show, The Big Show, MacVoices, Mac OS Ken, This Week in iOS, and more. Jeff is easy to find on social media as @jgamet on Twitter and Instagram, jeffgamet on LinkedIn., @jgamet@mastodon.social on Mastodon, and on his YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/jgamet. David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Touch With iOS where he discusses all things iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and related technologies. He is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Visit his YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65 and on Mastodon at @daveg65@mastodon.cloud. Rosemary Orchard is a nerd, automator, and chocaholic. When she's not making Shortcuts or podcasting about them, you'll frequently find her discussing her love of iPads and other Apple technology on RosemaryOrchard.com, Automators, Nested Folders, The Sweet Setup, and ScreenCastsOnline. She is runs WhenWorks to help you schedule appointments more efficiently. Originally from the UK she now calls Vienna, Austria, home…until she returns to the U.K. Follow her on Twitter.  Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:      http://macvoices.com      Twitter:      http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

OK, so this is weird... episode 123 features only the Southern Hemisphere!

On this show, we discuss Apple spending millions a day to develop conversational AI to improve Siri, an artificial kidney that could end dialysis, and new Phillips Hue lights, and an update for their Matter support. Source Links: superchargednews.com - Apple spending "millions of dollars a day" on developing conversational AI to improve Siri - https://bit.ly/3sLOtvm ucsf.edu - Can an Artificial Kidney end Dialysis - https://bit.ly/3R9Dgib techhive.com - Philips Hue unveils new lights and news about its Matter update - https://bit.ly/45J9l4Q

Did you know that feeling good about aging actually extends the number of years you'll feel good while you age?  In our culture, we dread getting older, but if I knew how great life would be in my 60s, I would have been a lot more excited for it! I've decided this is going to be my best decade yet. I want your next decade to be your best, too, and today's episode of the podcast is all about how to make that happen.  Today, I'm sharing the strategies that I've been deploying for aging powerfully—not just gracefully. And yes, that's absolutely possible. With the right nutrition and habits, you really can outsmart your biology and become stronger and more full of life than ever before.  I'm covering it all: stress and how to do a better job of managing it, why weight isn't a great measure of your metabolic health, exercises that are going to change your body inside and out, hormones, supplements… it's all in here.  As always, I'm diving deep. You're not just getting a list of to-dos, you're going to learn why it matters, so you can find the energy and motivation to implement the strategies and continue to build and have the amazing, powerful life you deserve. Full show notes: https://jjvirgin.com/after60 Watch the FULL VIDEO on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/jjvirginvideos Subscribe to my podcast: http://subscribetojj.com Join my 7-Day Eat Protein First Challenge: http://jjvirgin.com/proteinfirst Read my book, The Sugar Impact Diet: https://store.jjvirgin.com/collections/books/products/sugar-impact-diet-paperback-book Study: American Psychological Association: Longevity Increased by Positive Self-Perceptions of Aging: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-832261.pdf Oura Ring: https://ouraring.com/ Theia Health Continuous Glucose Monitor: https://join.theiahealth.ai/c/jj Phillips Hue app: https://www.philips-hue.com/en-in/explore-hue/apps/philips-hue-app Phillips Hue light bulbs: https://amzn.to/3DwXri9 True Dark blue light blocking glasses: https://truedark.com/?ref=ntrhmgv2  Get 10% OFF with code JJ10 Reignite Wellness­™ Sleep Candy: https://store.jjvirgin.com/products/sleep-candy Reignite Wellness­™ Magnesium Body Calm: https://store.jjvirgin.com/collections/supplements/products/magnesium-body-calm Bioimpedance scale: https://amzn.to/3Dwlz4q DEXA scan: https://dexascan.com/ British Medical Journal waist-to-height ratio chart https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/3/e010159 Meditations by Dr. Joe Dispenza: https://drjoedispenza.com/?rfsn=6914154.37386a&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=6914154.37386a The Tapping Solution: https://www.thetappingsolutionapp.com/jj Apple Watch: https://amzn.to/43J8KOW Reignite WellnessTM Sparkling C Powder: https://store.jjvirgin.com/products/sparkling-c-fizz Designs for Health DHEA: https://amzn.to/3OjexoS YourLabwork adrenal salivary test (4 sample cortisol saliva) : https://yourlabwork.com/jj-virgin/ Great study just showed that protein first = eating less & healthier choices: https://www.rutgers.edu/news/higher-protein-intake-while-dieting-leads-healthier-eating Buy Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar: https://amzn.to/3JIXpHp Designs for Health Berberine Synergy: https://amzn.to/43NiSGu Reignite WellnessTM Omega Plus: https://store.jjvirgin.com/products/omega-plus Reignite Wellness™ Protein First Enzymes: https://store.jjvirgin.com/products/protein-first-enzymes Reignite Wellness™ Collagen Peptides Powder: https://store.jjvirgin.com/collections/supplements/products/all-systems-glow-collagen Designs for Health TRI-K with GeranylGeraniol: https://amzn.to/47bsD4f Designs for Health Creatine: https://amzn.to/3pPLGjE  Timeline Nutrition Mitopure (Urolithin A): https://www.timelinenutrition.com/partners/jj-virgin Dry Farm Wines: dryfarmwines.com/jjvirgin YourLabwork thyroid panels: https://yourlabwork.com/jj-virgin/ Rethinking Breast Cancer Prevention with Dr. Felice Gersh: https://jjvirgin.com/main-podcast/rethinking-breast-cancer-prevention-with-dr-felice-gersh-ep-573/ Beating Breast Cancer Statistics with Dr. Jenn Simmons: https://jjvirgin.com/main-podcast/beating-breast-cancer-statistics-with-dr-jenn-simmons-ep-575/ Redefining Menopause: Why We Need a New Narrative with Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz:https://jjvirgin.com/main-podcast/redefining-menopause-why-we-need-a-new-narrative-with-dr-suzanne-gilberg-lenz-ep-529/ Designs for Health DIM-Evail: https://amzn.to/3q611g2 Annatto GG: https://www.designsforhealth.com/products/annatto-gg-150/ Designs for Health CoQnol: https://amzn.to/3Qh28En Watch 9 Anti-Aging Foods You Should Be Eating Every Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dnw5Fj9bSs  

On this episode of Neville Medhora Talks Copywriting, we learn that luck is something that can be created and increased. He shares tips on how to build luck by attracting like-minded people and going to places where successful people gather. They also discuss the benefits of Philips Hue Lights, a product that he is a big fan of, having around 85 connected devices throughout their house. The podcast covers various topics including scaling a business, the use of AI tools in writing and using reverse psychology in advertising. Finally, listeners are invited to think about luck as a unit of measure and the circumstances that influence it. Tune in to learn more about these fascinating topics![00:00:22] Crayola ad; ways to scale - code, media, product, people. AI trends.[00:01:01] Scaling equals more money. Use code or media to scale. Software companies are valuable due to instant and low-cost product delivery. Media is another way to scale.[00:02:39] Using AI and dividing tasks can increase productivity and reduce the need for managing many people in a business process. Avis' reverse psychology ad campaign focused on being the second-best rental car company.[00:03:32] Avis used their second-place status to create a positive image by promising to be nicer than the number one rental car company, Hertz. This tactic was similar to a billboard comical rivalry between late-night TV show hosts.[00:04:18] A person loves Philips Hue Lights, uses them exclusively, and has many connected devices in their home.[00:04:54] The writer uses an internet switch to control multiple Philips Hue lights with a single button press, making it easy to change the vibe of a room or house. They prefer using buttons over voice control.[00:05:36] Nev uses Phillips Hue to create colorful lighting for work calls, and reflects on the concept of luck.[00:06:14] Luck can be measured as units, but circumstances cannot be added to increase luck.[00:07:19] Creating luck involves beating others and sharing thoughts with like-minded individuals. Go to places with successful people. Key takeaways: you can create and build luck; creating more units of luck leads to increased luck.[00:07:55] Experimenting with personal ad placements on Swipefile.com, showing two new ad boxes for Canva-made ads in the fifth and 12th spots on the site. Copywriting Course link has received 85 clicks so far.

On this week's show: Sonos rumors are popping up again, Phillips Hue delays Matter while Eve launches their Matter products, Google and ADT finally have something to show for home security, Amazon opens up their massive Sidewalk network for developers, Home Assistant updates, project updates, and a cool pick of the week.

Today on the weekend edition Steven and Marc get together to talk about the big stories of the week, starting with rumours of what Apple may be preparing to bring out early next year inn its lineup of Macs with the new M2 processor. Also there's discussion on setting up a smart home using Philips Hue featuring an interview with the man behind the connected smart bulb himself talking about the products and also why the new Matter standard 'matters'. As always we welcome your feedback so please do email in - feedback@doubletaponair.com or call 1-877-803-4567 and leave us a voicemail. You can also find us across social media @DoubleTapOnAir.

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On episode 386 of Geekiest Show Ever, Elisa shares her latest cruise experiences. Melissa is taking piano lessons with iPad and Yamaha while illuminating her home in smart light from Phillips Hue and getting it all on camera with her new eufy pan and tilt. Check out our full show notes here https://www.geekiestshowever.com/gse-386-catching-up/. Do you have questions about what you heard in this episode? Please send us your feedback. You can email us: podcast at geekiestshowever dot com. Follow us on Twitter for additional tips and conversation: https://twitter.com/GeekiestShow. We'd like to hear from you, so let us know which tech topics interest you most. Elisa can be found at https://twitter.com/elisapacelli1 and Melissa can be found at https://TheMacMommy.com/ Geekiest Show Ever is an independent publication and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Apple Inc. Products made by Apple mentioned in this podcast are a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions. Episode Artwork Photo by David Pisnoy on Unsplash.

On this week's episode, it's all about power—yes, power—at home that often doesn't work when the bad weather hits. But what can you do to save your beloved tech from being destroyed by surge power and fluctuating power sources? Steven, Marc and Shaun all discuss the growing use of UPS (uninterrupted power supplies) in homes across Canada and around the world, and how these devices can make it possible to keep the lights and Internet on as well as vital communication links when the power goes out. Steven has also been buying again, and using a recent power outage as the excuse! He's bought a pile of new Phillips Hue bulbs, but how will the set-up experience be and will they work properly after a power cut, unlike his current IKEA bulbs? There's also big news in the gaming world with Forza Horizon 5 bringing in a feature they announced a while back that lets Deaf users who sign get sign language feedback from the game, and there's also news of a new voice coming to IOS 15.4 which comes from the LGBTQ+ community. And finally, why is Steven so upset at at the idea of a broken iMac? Send in your feedback to feedback@ami.ca and let us know your thoughts on the episode and give us your ideas for future shows.

Topics Include:  Picking the right TV Paring the right soundbar Getting the right lights for the mood Phillips Hue light strips and Halftime show: Snoop Emenem, Dr Dre, Mary J Blidge and Kendrick Lamar Controlling with your phone or smart assistant Music in pre-show by Sevan Beats Partly Cloudy: https://youtu.be/jYrV0RrAY_M Another Love:  https://youtu.be/26ItcqO0DRY https://linktr.ee/TheMavericPodcastNetwork --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themavcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/themavcast/support

Are you using Phillips Hue bulbs in your smarthome? Would you like to use a central console to manage them? Stay tuned I will show you how to do this ... The post How to manage Phillips Hue with Home Assistant on your Unraid server in your Smarthome first appeared on TechBytes With Ron Nutter.

Charlie, Nafis & Gary dive into the essential devices needed to start a smart home. There's also a bunch of new Amazon products, like Astro, their home robot and other odd smart home devices to discuss. But first, Winter is kind of here in South FloridaThe Mount Rushmore of Soups is builtGary shares his iOS 15 update woes and how to pronounce MojavePoll results of Android vs AppleGratitude is shared to two other Nafis Ahmeds that Charlie got to follow the showTikTok reaching 1 billion monthly users at the speed of lightTesla's full-self driving beta for city streetsFast food drive thrus being less efficient and accurate since the pandemic startedCharlie & Gary share a story of violence and betrayal from college centered around $1 Fiesta Potatoes from Taco BellTwitter's new feature that allows you to tip users with BitcoinNintendo's Super Mario movie and its star-studded castSmart Home DevicesAmazon's new Echo devicesAnd more Smart Devices mentioned: Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Apple HomePod, Phillips Hue lighting, Nest Cameras, Ring Doorbells, Nest and ecobee Thermostats, Smart plugs, Smart TVs with Google/Amazon/Apple integration, Smart door locks, Automated blinds/shades, Amazon's Alexa powered microwave, Smart Mirrors, Smart Showers, Smart Toilets, Sous Vide Smart Cooker, Smart Pet Feeders and the Amazon Astro Robot. ----------Support The Podcast:Instagram - Follow UsTwitter - Follow UsApple Podcasts - Listen,  Subscribe and RateSpotify - Listen & Follow

At least in years past we could at least spot the neighbors as they tried to hide behind the shrubs in the garden, the curtains in the house, or ducked down below the fence line that separated each of our little slices of the American Dream....These days; however, things are a little more subtle (if the neighbors have been paying attention to the InfoSec world for more than 5 minutes...)Long gone are the days of just borrowing the neighbors wireless to launch an attack against the NSA through their cable provider (although it IS fun to see the black suburban roll up occasionally to their doorstep when you're feeling mischievous..)Today's targets for neighborhood “watching” vary across an entire spectrum of fun and games...I still feel slightly guilty about the 50-gallon barrel of lube my neighbors have, but “Hey Siri...” we just have to have some fun....I DO enjoy making their microwave go off in the middle of the night, although they've replaced it a few times now, and the electrician doesn't use Google Maps anymore to find them... amazing just how far away those WEMO plugs can be controlled from.Now, thankfully Xfinity allows themselves to provide “free” WiFi to anyone with account credentials, so it IS still possible to get directly TO their router (you'd think folks would update the things.... but no) and given I've got around 1,335,000 Xfinity account ID/Passwords I'm set for a LONG time before I must leave my own fingerprints...Oh, speaking of fingerprints, confession time... one of the neighbors has a RING doorbell, oh how we laughed when we changed out the screws during install and just last week got the doorbell to short circuit and burn ½ the place down... shame the fire alarms didn't work, someone should REALLY unblock NEST's fire alarms from the firewall and allow them to do their job. The video of the owners yelling “Hey Google FFS call the fire brigade” will be posted on YouTube later (thanks Arlo for the default account credentials...)Oh, while we're on the subject of the recently deceased, I guess playing Poltergeist on the other neighbors Roku device and having it display on all their nice Samsung IoT enabled TV's is probably a mean thing to do... although it does make for entertainment as we might have also hooked up their Phillips Hue to pulse at the same frequency as the TV... I guess that's why they seem a little nervous these days.Oh, and we won't mention the fun we had with the Tesla and some bright spark in the neighborhood thinking they could geofence the car into opening/closing the garage as they came home... Watching the garage door rapidly open and close AS the car tried to get in watching Grandma eat dinner with her falsies...Speaking of that, I need to go mess with dear old Grandma's IoT toothbrush, I think tonight we'll set it for “killer mode” and see if it can chase her round the bathroom again...We haven't even gotten to the fun part watching the cute couple across the road react as their adult toys came to life in the middle of a webinar and started to inch across the desk... now THAT was fun to record… got to LOVE Bluetooth enabled things.You get the idea; the neighborhood is SO much more fun these days....Join us tonight as we talk though the evolution of the nosey neighbor :)

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In c't uplink: Smart Home kann vieles sein: Spar-Automatik, Bequemlichkeits-Booster, Knöpfe-Drücker, Alarm-Wächter oder Robo-Gärtner. Wir umzingeln das Thema! Kurz stehen geblieben - das Licht geht aus. In die Dunkelheit gewunken - Flutlicht! Zusätzlich geht die Musikanlage an - in allen Räumen, auch der Garage. Und sie spielt immer das gleiche Lied! Die c't-Redakteure Nico Jurran, Stefan Porteck und Sven Hansen sind Pioniere der intelligenten Wohnräume und haben mit der Technik schon so einiges erlebt. Der Unterschied zwischen dem beschriebenen Horror-Szenario und einem mitdenkenden Haus war im Beispiel nur eine falsch gesetzte Debug-Variable. Smart Home kann eine komplexe Spielwiese für programmierfreudige Technikfans mit Raspi und Funk-Bridge sein. Oder es ist eine schnell per App eingestellte Licht-Automatik, die auch Alexa per Zuruf steuert. Die Herangehensweise ist so vielfältig wie die Artikel zum Titelthema „Ihr Einstieg ins Smart Home“ in c't 6/2021. Artikel zur Sendung: Spart Home, Smart Geld und Energie sparen, c't 6/2021, S. 18 https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2021/6/2033715103126301999 Zu Diensten, Mehr Komfort durch smartes Wohnen, c't 6/2021, S.20 https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2021/6/2033715143832469607 Unter Kontrolle, Wie das Smart Home seine Bewohner schützt, c't 6/2021, S. 22 https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2021/6/2100715110322423980 Videobutler, Unterhaltungselektronik im Griff, c't 6/2021, S. 24 https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2021/6/2100715121071724643 Digitaler Daumen, Mehr Freude am Garten, c't 6/2021, S. 26 https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2021/6/2100715125975629962 Alle Infos zum Artikel gibts unter: https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2021/6/2033715084617041701 #ctuplink #smarthome #podcast

In dieser Folge schauen wir uns gemeinsam mit Daniel, der bei Busch-Jaeger Spezialist für's Smart Home ist, die Möglichkeiten der Beleuchtungssteuerung mittels Zigbee Protokoll an. Ihr habt davon noch nicht gehört? Bei Phillips, IKEA und Co seid ihr bestimmt schon darüber gestolpert. Nach der Folge wisst ihr, warum es sinnvoll ist sich über die Steuerung Gedanken zu machen. Einfachheit, Individualität und Skalierbarkeit sind da nur einige der Argumente. Mehr als ein Grund ganz genau hinzuhören!

We start this weeks Double Tap Canada with a plea for help from a confused Steven Scott. He’s still looking for a gaming rig to play his beloved truck driving game on but with so many options out there, just what should he buy? Marc Aflalo will be pointing him in the right direction. Sticking with gaming, we’ll be taking a look at the news that Google has closed it’s game studios for their Stadia platform. Does this mean the end for the short-lived gaming service? In other tech news, Apple has just released the developer beta of iOS 14.5 and there are 2 features that may be worth getting excited about. Also, Amazon have just launched the Alexa Guard Plus subscription service in the US & Canada. The Alexa Guard feature will listen out and notify you when your smartspeaker hears any trigger sounds such as breaking glass, smoke alarms etc. Just what extra protection do you get with the new Alexa Guard Plus feature and is it worth the $4.99 monthly subscription? While we’re talking Alexa, Steven will be running through some skills & features that can be handy if you are working from home, or when you want to annoying your dog… Finally, Steven takes a look at 2 smart lighting products, 1 from Phillips Hue & 1 from TP Tapo. Just how easy are they to set up? it’s on to your emails. After buying a new touch screen laptop, Bilal wants to know if the Jaws screen reader has touch screen support. If you have any questions, then we’d love to hear from you. You can email feedback@ami.ca or leave a voicemail on 844 971 1999

Cada vez + los asistentes inteligentes se están apoderando de nuestras casas. Os cuento mi experiencia con Alexa y los gadgets que abarcan en mi ecosistema Amazon. Notas del episodio Gadgets 2 Echo Dot (3th y 4th generación) 1 Echo Flex 1 Amazon Plug 1 FireTV Stick 5 bombillas Phillips Hue 1 tira LED 5m Uso Temporizadores Música Encender / Apagar luces TV/Series/Películas desde Alexa Rutinas y Automazación

Boys are BACK with a weirdly comprehensive discussion of smart tech and playoff football.Follow the cast on all socials for clips, highlights, and updates!Insta: @2boys1castTik Tok: @2boys1castCheckout GuidoMan9000's beat tape!https://soundcloud.com/guidoman9000/sets/quarantine-beat-tape-vol-1

Looking for a way to make your favorite dumb bulb smart? Want to put together a portable smarthome using just your smartphone? Stay tuned and I will show you how ... The post How to implement Phillips Hue Bluetooth Smart Plug in your Smarthome first appeared on TechBytes With Ron Nutter.

Many entrepreneurs are not getting enough sleep.  This is partly due to the hustle culture of entrepreneurship and partly because they tend to bootstrap their business, even when they can afford to hire or outsource.  I work with female entrepreneurs who identify with ADHD traits, and I can say with full confidence that very few of them are getting the kind of sleep that they know they should (and wish they could.) Since this is our first guest expert interview, I wanted it to be special and deliver value.  I connected with sleep psychologist Yishan Xu, Ph.D., a Stanford-trained expert in behavioral sleep psychology,  host of two podcasts, Deep Into Sleep and  Ask Yishan,  a Mandarin language podcast. Dr. Xu also hosts a YouTube channel.  And, if that wasn't enough, she's a successful entrepreneur with a group practice in California that has more than 10 clinicians.In this interview, we will be talking about how sleep is essential for entrepreneurs, how to get quality sleep, and the do's and dont's of sleeping (among others).  Yishan and I will cover the following:Why she became a behavioral sleep specialist and sleep problems she treatsHabits of adults with ADHD that contribute to sleep deficits The statistics on sleep and mental clarity  (they're scary) Why you should stop hitting the snooze button The connection between sleep and weight Caffeine and energy  (this one blew my mind!)The science and culture of napping  -Yishan & Diann share their personal beliefs and napping habits Recommendations: Yishan talked about and uses Phillips Hue smart lighting in her home:https://www.philips-hue.com/en-usAre you loving The Driven Woman Podcast, listening regularly, maybe even a subscriber who eagerly waits for Tuesday when the next episode is released? I'm thrilled that you're one of us!But hey, maybe it's time we got to know each other better. You can visit my website at www.diannwingertcoaching.com/ and choose your own adventure by grabbing these free goodies:The 6 Steps to ADHD MasteryThe Driven Woman RoadmapThe ADHD Strength QuizOr if you're really feeling it, all three!Had enough of this no-progress pandemic year?Book a free consultation with me now, so we can get you moving forward again:https://calendly.com/diannwingert/free-consultationIf you wish to review and rate The Driven Woman Podcast, click HERE Remember, if you do, I will read it in a future episode! We will also link it to your biz! This episode is brought to you by:The place to be for like-minded and like-brained women who want an ADHD friendly business and life. >  The Driven Woman Facebook Group

Many entrepreneurs are not getting enough sleep. This is partly due to the hustle culture of entrepreneurship and partly because they tend to bootstrap their business, even when they can afford to hire or outsource. I work with female entrepreneurs who identify with ADHD traits, and I can say with full confidence that very few of them are getting the kind of sleep that they know they should (and wish they could.) Since this is our first guest expert interview, I wanted it to be special and deliver value. I connected with sleep psychologist Yishan Xu, Ph.D., a Stanford-trained expert in behavioral sleep psychology, host of two podcasts, Deep Into Sleep and Ask Yishan, a Mandarin language podcast. Dr. Xu also hosts a YouTube channel. And, if that wasn't enough, she's a successful entrepreneur with a group practice in California that has more than 10 clinicians.In this interview, we will be talking about how sleep is essential for entrepreneurs, how to get quality sleep, and the do's and dont's of sleeping (among others). Yishan and I will cover the following:Why she became a behavioral sleep specialist and sleep problems she treatsHabits of adults with ADHD that contribute to sleep deficits The statistics on sleep and mental clarity (they're scary) Why you should stop hitting the snooze button The connection between sleep and weight Caffeine and energy (this one blew my mind!)The science and culture of napping -Yishan & Diann share their personal beliefs and napping habits Recommendations: Yishan talked about and uses Phillips Hue smart lighting in her home:https://www.philips-hue.com/en-usAre you loving The Driven Woman Podcast, listening regularly, maybe even a subscriber who eagerly waits for Tuesday when the next episode is released? I'm thrilled that you're one of us!But hey, maybe it's time we got to know each other better. You can visit my website at www.diannwingertcoaching.com/ and choose your own adventure by grabbing these free goodies:The 6 Steps to ADHD MasteryThe Driven Woman RoadmapThe ADHD Strength QuizOr if you're really feeling it, all three!Had enough of this no-progress pandemic year?Book a free consultation with me now, so we can get you moving forward again:https://calendly.com/diannwingert/free-consultationIf you wish to review and rate The Driven Woman Podcast, click HERE Remember, if you do, I will read it in a future episode! We will also link it to your biz! This...

Nothing beats sitting down to a riveting film that grabs your attention and doesn’t let go.  People often say they love the ability to lounge on their own comfy sofa, having access to their own kitchen and bathroom making staying home for a movie extra appealing. So how do you achieve better immersion in the film?  THAT, my friends, is where the hue lighting system plays a key role. Ready for a better home theater experience?Join the ALL POSITIVE Home Space and Reason community:~ Join the private Facebook group for conversations & sharing about your home space and reason.  All the product links and photos you hear about within the podcast live here. ~ Follow me on Instagram~ Facebook ~ Follow my boards on Pinterest ~ Twitter~ My Home Coaching & Realtor Website www.SpaceAndReason.com Sources & Reference———————————————-Medium.com wrote a good article titled "Creating a fully automated home with a Sonos System" Legal Disclosure: Kristina Browning is a licensed Realtor in the State of Oregon with 503 Properties. "Create a Home that Thrives" is a registered Trademark of Kristina Browning.

Matthew Winter (@matthewwwinter) and Chris Hodge (@chris420hodge) come together to discuss Phillips Hue lights being overpriced, the H3/Keemstar drama, the internet forcing every celebrity, influencer and creator to have a say about #BlackLivesMatter, large companies hiring minorities only to fill a quota, and our own personal experiences with police, both good and bad. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Phillips Hue are overpriced and the H3/Keemstar drama 7:26 - Forcing celebrities and creators to speak about #BlackLivesMatter 13:54 - Liam Neeson reflecting on racism and hiring minorities to fill a quota 21:36 - Dealing with police and our experiences with them

Eve Cam is out for preorder, Eufy delays their HomeKit camera, 1Home integrates the legacy KNX home accessories, Stephen reviews his first experience with Phillips Hue, and we have listener questions about Arlo HomeKit integration. This episode is sponsored by VOCOlinc. VOCOlinc has an ever-growing lineup of HomeKit accesories focusing on wellbeing, security, lighting, plugs, and convenience all at an affordable price. Find all of its gear, including the upcoming PureFlow air purifier and VS1 contact sensor on Amazon. Send us your HomeKit questions and recommendations with the hashtag #homekitinsider. Tweet and follow our hosts at Andrew O’Hara and Stephen Robles or email us here. Find us in your favorite podcast player by searching for "HomeKit Insider" and support the show by leaving a 5-Star rating and comment in Apple Podcasts. Links from the Show Eve Cam HomeKit Secure Video camera up for preorder, ships June 23 Eufy delays HomeKit update to implement HomeKit Secure Video 1Home: Upgrade Your KNX Home Philips Hue 2-Pack Premium Smart Light Starter Kit Philips Hue White Ambiance Decorative Candle Dimmable LED Lurton Aurora Smart Bulb Dimmer Arlo adds HomeKit support

Open-source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.2 major players in the Open Source  Home Assistant - https://www.home-assistant.io/ OpenHab - https://www.openhab.org/ Privacy first - you control your data/integrations stored locally no cloud involved unless you allow it HA - has 3 different use cases: Observe - tracks the state of all devices in your home Control - Interact with your devices via UI or mobile app Automate - set up rules to perform tasks when you leave the house or during certain times of the day The founder's vision - https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/01/19/perfect-home-automation/ The perfect App is no App - home automation should blend your current workflow, not replace it Home automation should run at home Community Cookbook (Automation Examples)DEMO Link - https://demo.home-assistant.io/

Mike has a new GoXLR Mini in his studio and is not afraid to use it, Live! We take a good look and demo it along with an Audio Technica AT 2020 microphone. Jim talks about the latest from Phillip Hue and the loss of support coming for the v1 Hue Hub and a solution to fix it. We wrap things up with some discussion around monitor mounts and find out that we both purchased VIVO mounts about 6 years apart.  I think you will enjoy the show.  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg433 Join Jim

Mike has a new GoXLR Mini in his studio and is not afraid to use it, Live! We take a good look and demo it along with an Audio Technica AT 2020 microphone. Jim talks about the latest from Phillip Hue and the loss of support coming for the v1 Hue Hub and a solution to fix it. We wrap things up with some discussion around monitor mounts and find out that we both purchased VIVO mounts about 6 years apart.  I think you will enjoy the show.  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg433 Join Jim

Mike has a new GoXLR Mini in his studio and is not afraid to use it, Live! We take a good look and demo it along with an Audio Technica AT 2020 microphone. Jim talks about the latest from Phillip Hue and the loss of support coming for the v1 Hue Hub and a solution to fix it. We wrap things up with some discussion around monitor mounts and find out that we both purchased VIVO mounts about 6 years apart.  I think you will enjoy the show.  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg433 Join Jim

Update on the "Bing in Chrome" controversy, Yammer is still a thing, Phillips Hue patching, Teams growing pains, Windows 10's start menu bites the big one, Apple grievances, PowerShell learning, and more. Extended show notes available at https://hthpc.com/ Boot-Up (Intro…random topics) 00:15 • Some guy thinks Steve's Gmail is his and orders things on costco.com • Steve gets the receipts and notifications. • Patch your Philips Hue • https://www.darkreading.com/iot/researchers-reveal-how-smart-lightbulbs-can-be-hacked-to-attack/d/d-id/1336993 • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6007 • Bug in the Zigbee protocol via the Philips Hue Bridge • Microsoft caves on Bing in Chrome: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/office-365-blog/update-to-microsoft-search-in-bing-through-office-365-proplus/ba-p/1161030 • Tiff got into a Twitter “argument” with Tony Redmond • You can now Yammer via OWA (Yammer still exists?) • Teams multi channel posting and OWA integration • Teams growing pains • Teams Outage – Forgotten renewed cert https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1224336575036870656 • O365 portal outage https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/f3b6qz/365_admin_portal_down/ The Windows 10 Start Menu Search breaks 19:18 • https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ez92x0/windows_10_no_results_in_search_window/ • https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1225095567153352704?s=20 • Reg fix available, no reboot needed in most cases If Steve could reinvent Apple 23:25 • Put touch screens on Macbooks • Combine iOS and macOS hardware/software. Like macOS Catalyst but expanded • https://daringfireball.net/2020/02/my_2019_apple_report_card (See the iPad section) • Get rid of the Touch Bar • Stop dumbing down macOS, look back to Snow Leopard and go from there • Get away from bad subscription models or combine them all into one • Make iCloud a top tier cloud provider instead of the toy that it currently is • Get back to making hardware that isn't flavor-of-the-week/artsy junk Steve does PowerShell 41:13 • Error handling and null checks for cmdlets that do not properly react to try/catch • O365 command throttling workarounds • Microsoft Flow (Power Automate) Ask the Stiffs: Question of the Week 53:30 • Things you do when your coworker's computer is unlocked • David Hasselhoff - The "Hoff" Outro - "Plus Delta” 57:00 • Twitter: @HTHThePodcast https://twitter.com/HTHTHEPODCAST • We help you, you help us: Rate us on iTunes • Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/268339020812998/ • You can watch the raw/unedited feed of the podcast at https://www.twitch.tv/hopethishelps • From all of us here, "We hope this helps!" --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Es ist Sonntag, das heißt Podcast Zeit, ich erzähle euch heute etwas zum Arduino, einer Idee für einen Lichschalter Mod im DiY Bereich und gebe euch ein kurzes Review zum Thema Phillips Hue. Viel Spaß beim Hören

Fredrik, Karl, Mansoor og David diskuterer feiloversettelser på Facebook, Phillips Hue mareritt, hvordan det er å være ukul og gammel, dabbing, Minecraft, Fortnite og flossing, og Meteorologisk Institutt sin navngivning av ekstremvær. Lenker: Facebook beklagar – seier teknisk feil førte til grov omsetjarfeil (NRK)   Forumet er en podcast fra Diskusjon, besøk oss på diskusjon.no Musikk av Rasterizer Logo og grafisk design av Destillert Reklame   Har du innspill til en fremtidig episode, eller har du noe spennende du har lyst til å gjeste med? Snakk med oss på diskusjon.no.   Deltakere i denne episoden: Krozmar Gavekort

The NAB Streaming Experience website can be found hereLearn about NAB Streaming Summit hereDan Rayburn LinkedIn profileRelated episode: What happens when content owners go directThe Video Insiders LinkedIn Group is where over 1,600 of your peers are discussing the latest news and sharing information of interest. Click here to joinWould you like to be a guest on the show? Send an email to: thevideoinsiders@beamr.comLearn more about Beamr TRANSCRIPTION (Note: This is machine generated and may have been lightly edited)Dan Rayburn: 00:00 There's seven, eight years ago when we were all playing in this arena and trying to really figure out the business model today, this is big business. We have tens of billions of dollars at stake. This stuff has to work. It has to be right and there is a lot of pressure on these new conglomerates to make sure that the video workflows, they're building out work properly because it is truly the future of their business. And I think the great way to really drive that point home is just remember all the services that Dan Rayburn: 00:25 launched say five years ago in the market. When the services came out, one, there was no investor day because investors didn't care what you were launching because at the time you weren't spending that much money and it was still a newish experience from a quality standpoint. Today, every single service that's launching is having an investor day where before the service is even out they're projecting to investors of when these services will become profitable. Talk about a shift in our industry. Announcer: 00:53 The video insiders is the show that makes sense of all that is happening in the world of online video as seen through the eyes of a second generation codec nerd and a marketing guy who knows what I frames and macro blocks are. And here are your hosts Mark Donnigan and Dror Gill. Mark Donnigan: 01:07 Welcome to another super exciting episode of the video insiders. We have Dan Rayburn with us again. Uh, this is part two. Yeah, it's amazing. And his first interview was one of the most popular ones on our podcast. We have to say it's the most downloaded and we have a lot to talk to talk about because since the last podcast episode where Dan was interviewed here on The Video Insiders, a lot has happened in the OTT space. I mean, really a lot. Yeah, a lot. So Dan, you know, welcome back to The Video Insiders. Thanks guys. Thanks for having me. You know me, I always have lots to talk about, so I love chatting about the industry. Well you do, you are an easy guest to host, that's for sure. Dan Rayburn: 01:53 I've always got stuff to say, right? I have an opinion on everything, but uh, it's, it's an exciting time in the space. And since we last talked to your point, we've got, we've got Disney out, we've got Apple plus out, we've got some new announcements from, from NBC regarding Peacock. We've, got a lot going on in the industry right now. A lot of confusion as well though. Dror Gill: 02:11 So let me ask you, when you, when you to watch some TV in the evening, can you really focus on the content or are you always looking for kind of artifacts, HDR levels? You know, stuff like that. Dan Rayburn: 02:26 I really don't want to think about the business because I do so much of that when I am reviewing the services from a business or content standpoint, you know, to your, to your point in terms of yeah, I am constantly looking at bitrates. I am looking at, okay, what's coming through my router because I want to see what the maximum stream is that I'm getting from the Mandalorian. You know, I probably have 40 different streaming services here at home and I've got anywhere between 10 and 12 TV's set up. Just sort of a lab environment and plus all the iPads, iPhones, MacBooks, like it's ridiculous, like a Best Buy here. I'm not the average consumer obviously, but, uh, I think like the average consumer in many cases, we are all looking at where the content is. So I've got some friends who, huge Rick and Morty fans and the new Rick and Morty season is out and this and that. Dan Rayburn: 03:10 And I said to him, you know, Hey, next year you're going to be able to stream this. And they're like, yeah, but I can't figure out where. Well, that's a great point. They can't figure out where, because where it's currently is and where it's currently at right now is going to be removed because AT&T has said that this is going to be exclusively under the new HBO Max brand. The average consumer isn't going to know that. So we're still going to have content fragmentation problems. So as a consumer, I think that's the biggest thing that we look at is just what content do we want to watch? Mark Donnigan: 03:39 You bring up something really interesting Dan, and this is a huge hole that I see in reporting on all the new services. It seems like so much of the press is writing about, you know, this service killing the next service. Dan Rayburn: 03:53 The problem is, look, the problem is the vast majority of people who are writing about our industry don't actually use the product. Mark Donnigan: 04:00 Yeah. They don't have 12 TV set up in their house, you know, like you do. Dan Rayburn: 04:03 They don't have one. All of these major platforms that are either telcos, carriers, wireless operators, content owners, distributors, whatever, whatever you want to call them, they're all creating brand new digital platforms for the future. And by that I mean this, when you think of what's taking place in the market right now with mergers, Viacom, CBS, Pluto, right, CBS All Access, CBS sports, CBS news, they are now all going to be converging and building out a new platform for all of these different products and services. That's one. Now throw in NBC sports, NBC news, Playmaker, Peacock, a, what do they also own? New England sports network. One of the other sports things. Throw all those guys in. That's now a brand new stack in the ecosystem. Now let's move on to AT&T. AT&T, Warner, Turner, HBO Max. That's now a whole system. Oh, and I forgot SKY when you're talking about NBC, you got to throw SKY in there too. So think about some of the largest companies that we have out there that are now creating a brand new stack end-to-end to fuel all these different new properties that they have. The biggest thing that you need there when you do that is what? Expertise, Mark Donnigan: 05:22 there might be some cues here because of course news just came out literally a couple of days ago. Fox signed with AWS a a very large deal. Now, um, I was reading some analysis on this and you know, it's because 21st Century Fox when they were acquired by Disney, you know, so there was a split, right? So the studio was acquired by Disney and all of those technical services actually went with you know, 21st Century Fox and of course then being a part of Disney. And then with BAM, now you've got this huge, you know, service organization that's available. And then here was Fox, the TV studio, the sports, you know, the sports side of Fox that needed a complete, you know, service provider. And it appears that they have selected AWS for even more than just, you know, on demand instances. So it's even more than a data center play. Um, and, and so that would seem to give credence to what your saying that, you know, BAM is far more than just a streaming service that, you know, there's, there's a lot of technical expertise and services they're providing Disney. Dan Rayburn: 06:36 Yeah, there's a huge amount and people, you know, really don't understand. I think a lot of people, even in our industry, don't understand what goes into all these services. Just the amount of beacons that are deployed, right. Just the amount of APIs you have to check. All the QoS and QoE reporting that has to come in and the analytics. And that's before you're doing any advertising. So anything advertising based obviously has more complexity tying into all the ad flows. And if you're doing live, okay, now you're talking about stream stitching for inserting ads into a live stream- that adds complexity. You have to think about latency and different ways to do chunked encoding. There's things you can tweak with HLS. There's just so much going on with these workflows and platforms that you really have to have that expertise. And some companies, you know think of Discovery, right? Dan Rayburn: 07:19 We heard from Discovery six, seven months ago when they announced they were going to hire 200 people to build a new streaming department to run all of Discovery's properties. So in some cases you have companies like that go, we want to own this, we want to build it, we'll bring it in house and it'll take them some time to get to market with that expertise. But they'll get there. And then you have other companies like Fox here where they signed that deal with Amazon and you know what they're really using AWS for is a couple of different things on the Cloud Front side, it's to deliver Thursday night football. Amazon already does live football. They kicked off the Premier League a what, two days ago? Three days ago from when we're talking now. So Amazon obviously has expertise in live streaming. The Premier League went off well with no major hitches. Dan Rayburn: 08:01 You did have some users complaining about latency, but that wasn't a problem Amazon was trying to fix just like we saw with the past Superbowl. That wasn't something where they were like, okay, we want to get latency to the same as broadcast. That was not the goal. So I don't see that as a problem. So they're using AWS for video workflows, editing and graphic storage, but also for this new product AWS calls Local Zone that puts cloud computing hardware closer to the edge and the edge is a broad term. Netflix has also signed on to be one of one of the first customers for this new AWS Local Zone service as well. So, it's super important, you know, we as consumers, we all want a good quality service and we expect it and now we're paying for it. So today this is big business. We have tens of billions of dollars at stake. This stuff has to work. It has to be right. And there is a lot of pressure on these new conglomerates to make sure that the video workflows, they're building out work properly because it is truly the future of their business. Dror Gill: 08:58 We're done with experimenting. Now we need to show the money. Dan Rayburn: 09:01 That's right. And you're spending a lot of money to do this. Look at how much money Disney's lost so far just on Hulu and then the acquisition of BAMTech. But they've already said to investors, here's one, we're going to make it back. Here's where we're going to become profitable. So you saw AT&T do that in their, in their HBO Dan Rayburn: 09:17 Max day. And NBC just announced they're going to have an investor day in January for Peacock. We're in a different era. Mark Donnigan: 09:22 Now for, you know, almost the first time, what is being done in engineering and R&D, can actually move a stock price. You know, meaning that the decisions that are made, whether that's technology choices, um, you know, codecs, certain stacks, architectures... If It doesn't work, like the stock is gonna move. And when the stock moves, it has the attention of everyone, you know, up until this point, you know? Yeah. The tech blogs, you know, would, would "dis a service" for an outage or for, you know, poor quality or you know, so yes it would get coverage but it never moved a stock price. You know? Or maybe there was a one day blip and you know, but, but basically it was kind of a non-event. Now that is no longer the case. Right? Dan Rayburn: 10:13 The bottom line is you have to think about profitability. And it's interesting that we're talking about this at a time when, if you think about Uber and WeWork, and some of these other services, what are investors clamoring for now? Profits, forget all this Amazon model of getting big, fast and burn as much money as possible. Thank God we seem to be getting out of that from a investment standpoint right now and in the streaming space, even more so also, look who's getting into the space? AT&T I think right now is the most heavily indebted US company right now. I mean it's insane how much debt that they have. So you also have companies, some of these that are already very deeply in debt that investors want to see anything new that they get into where they're spending billions of dollars to do it. They better turn a profit pretty quickly. Dror Gill: 11:03 But, but uh, Dan, let's look at the other side of the coin. A company that has tons of money, um, in the, in the bank and now they need to find some creative ways to use it in order to get those profits, uh, coming in again. And of course we're talking about Apple. Um, after selling a, you know, so many devices and now they, they've realized that services would be a much larger part of their revenues moving forward. So they, they really in a, in a spending mode and uh, the real question is will they be successful in catching up to the existing services and competing with all this new stuff that is coming out? Dan Rayburn: 11:47 Well, see I don't think they have to catch up though. That's the difference cause their, their business model is different. That's the other thing is people don't look at the business model of these services. You know, if you think about Apple services revenue, it was twelve and a half billion dollars, um, in the last quarter, which is pretty amazing. Their services business grew 13% year over year, so they're certainly doing a good job there. And Apple TV Plus, you know, the whole deal of that is just drive more usage on Apple's platform and services. But the unique thing with Apple of course is, well they own the hardware as we know, but they also own the OS. They own the browser, they own the store, they own the entire ecosystem. What does Netflix own? They don't own anything except content, right? So it's two different business models and everybody throws these, these folks in together and people go, Apple didn't have a successful launch. Dan Rayburn: 12:38 Well they did. They weren't trying to license back catalog. They weren't trying to launch with a hundred shows. That wasn't the goal of their platform because they're driving revenue in different ways. So it's the same way right now that Roku doesn't make a lot of money on their hardware, their seeding it out in the market to obviously drive the advertising business and the Roku channel, you know, the platform business. And Amazon pushing out Amazon fire TVs is what, $20 on black Friday for those sticks. They're not making much money in that either. So I think it's always bad when you see all these services compared to one another in the media and this horrible term streaming war because it's not a war- hate that term. Uh, and a lot of these services are not competing with one another. They don't see each other as competition. Apple is not trying to do the same business model as a Netflix, nor do they need to because it's a different type of company. Mark Donnigan: 13:31 It's excellent you brought up Roku. I'm looking at their Q3 numbers. They just came out like three weeks ago, um, or early November, I believe. And they're advertising revenue for the period was just under 180 million, 179.3 million. It was up 79% from the previous year's quarter, almost double and their device revenue was up 11% so that's good. But it was 81 million. So the point is their advertising was more than double their device revenue, you know, and their, and their numbers are showing on the advertising platform side, you know, just tremendous growth. And of course that's ultimately what they're really reporting around. I mean, yes, their device revenues are significant enough, you know, they're reporting that. Dan Rayburn: 14:22 Yeah, they shifted their business model. Right. I mean Anthony was smart. Keep in mind, Anthony came out of, came out of Netflix, that's where the Roku was born. Yeah, it was incubated there. Initially. Right. And that's where they got some of the money from and, and they realized longterm, I'd say two things were really smart. In the beginning Roku realized Netflix realized they didn't want to be invested in any one hardware company because then they couldn't be Switzerland. They couldn't be neutral. So that was smart to diverse, diversify from the Roku investment that they have. But then Roku also realized, they were smart to realize the writing on the wall here, you're not going to compete longterm on the hardware side. Hardware pricing always gets pushed down and back then if you remember all the different devices, I mean at one point we had 20 different streaming players in the market. Dan Rayburn: 15:03 It was ridiculous how many were out there. Even Vizio had one. Uh, but then really, I think what changed was when Amazon came into the market. Because we all know Amazon pushes pricing, pricing down on everything and we're, we're at a point soon of where I, I, this isn't official, Amazon hasn't told me this, but I will pretty much bet anything that at some point you're going to sign up for prime and you're going to get a stick for free because at $19 now on black Friday, this thing is getting close to being free. And if you're in the hardware business, do you want to be competing with Amazon on something like that? Absolutely not. So Roku realized that Roku had to become not a hardware device, but a platform. And the key thing there was obviously them getting their platform into smart TVs and especially a lot of smart TVs that are not the high end ones, not that TCL, doesn't make some good "high-ender" TVs. Dan Rayburn: 15:54 But you know, the average Roku enabled TV that's being sold is probably $300. Hisense, TCL, some of the others. So they're getting more of them out there. And, and that's really what Roku has become is that platform and their, their latest acquisition of Dataxu. You know, that's interesting because that is a platform that basically will allow Roku advertisers to better plan and optimize their ad spend across TV and OTT providers. And, and that's really smart of Roku. Uh, because this is the future of the company. You're talking about a company that's doing over a billion dollars a year now, in 2019, if I remember that number correctly. So you have to think about how Roku can capture a larger share of the market because as well known as a brand that Roku is, they still have a very small percentage of total households in the U S when you look at the numbers of, they don't call it consumers anymore, devices. Dan Rayburn: 16:55 Um, you know, which is good because like I have a bunch of devices in my house, but I'm one person. So they're growing, but that's something that they have to continue to do. Their monthly active users has to continue to go up. But yeah, Roku is in a really interesting spot in that regard. Their, their stock is incredible in terms of how much volatility it has in any given day or week. Sometimes. Uh, I think the Roku channel is an interesting thing where, you know, they go out and they're starting, they start offering content for free just like Tubi and Pluto and you know, IMDB TV by Amazon and that market is getting very crowded. And frankly, I don't quite understand that market because the content on those platforms is just so old and outdated. I really don't know who's clamoring to see Gilligan's Island. Mark Donnigan: 17:37 Well, Dan, so how should services be measured, you know, from a QoS standpoint? Dan Rayburn: 17:43 Uh, boy, that's a great question. Uh, I think first and foremost you have to look at what the methodology is. Methodology is the key for anything. So, you know, as an analyst, I don't frankly care about opinions so much. I care about data. I think companies should base how a service is doing, whether that's financially, whether it's technically, whether how it's scaling. They should base that on data because data can't be argued with really in most cases. Uh, so I, I think first and foremost is the methodology. And I think what you have to understand there is different companies have different ways of measuring performance. When I go out and do surveys to CDN customers on how they measure, some go, I care all about time to first frame or startup time. Others go, no, I only care about rebuffering. Some go, well, to me latency is most important. Dan Rayburn: 18:25 Well, none of those are more important than the other. It depends on who the customer is. And what their business model is. So as an industry we have to continue to think about these services as, as isolated services as opposed to every throwing everybody in this group of, Oh, you're a video service, you should measure your video quality this way. Not necessarily. So I think methodology first and foremost is most important. I think sharing that methodology is key as well. Uh, but, but I think you should always value a service based on quality over quantity. And we hear that a lot. The opposite of that in the advertising side where everybody talks about how many ads were delivered. But the question I always then ask is to a brand, would you rather deliver fewer ads and have a better viewing experience or do you just care about how many ads you pushed out there? Dan Rayburn: 19:16 And we have to think about that the same way on services that are not ad based. So I think what we obviously know from consumers from all these reports that we've seen, and frankly I don't think we need any more. I don't know why people keep pushing out more reports saying that if the video doesn't start up quickly, consumers are unhappy. Yeah, thanks. We know that. I think measuring quality has to first and foremost come down to what is the experience that you want a consumer to have with your content. That's the first thing. Once you define that experience, now how do you actually decide how to achieve that? Well, there's different ways to do that. We know that some of the basic ones are startup time. We know that customers get frustrated when something takes long to start. We also know rebuffering is a huge issue as well, which is obviously why we use adaptive bit rate encoding hopefully to relieve those issues. Dan Rayburn: 20:03 But it's interesting when you look online you don't see a lot of complaints honestly around rebuffering you see more with just initial startup time, but the biggest complaint you see actually doesn't have to do with the video. It has to do with just getting to the video. So you're having all these other issues in the stack before it actually gets to delivering the video bits and those are the things that really have to be solved. Those are the things that really have to be scaled because scaling the video is not that hard for someone like Disney Plus. Disney Plus launches that day, let's say it was 10 million actual individual subscribers and let's say they were all watching at the same time, 10 million streams across the five CDNs that Disney was using. That's not a big deal at all. It's 2 million streams a CDN, that's nothing. That's not hard, so people always think it's the CDN. Dan Rayburn: 20:56 I think when you're determining quality first and foremost you have to have a good understanding internally at your company, what you think good quality is to you for your service based on your business model, based on your consumers and also based on the type of device they're watching on is the vast majority of your content on mobile. And the reason I say that is as an example, when Quibi comes out next year, it's a hundred percent mobile focused. Do you think their methodology to measure quality should be the same as a Netflix? Because we know everything's going to be viewed on a small screen in short form content for Quibi. It's a different way to measure. I think there's lots of good services out there to help you measure there. There's, there's newer ones coming to the market in terms of what's being measured. You've got services that are measuring how well API's are doing versus how well streaming servers are doing versus ad servers and ad platforms and exchanges. Dan Rayburn: 21:43 And then you think of their traditional stuff that's been out there in terms of telcos and carriers, last mile providers, how they're doing transit providers. When you put all that together, it gives you a much better holistic view of what QoS looks like across the internet from end to end, from glass to delivery. Uh, but we still have a ways to go in terms of really showcasing that. And unfortunately none of these companies after the fact ever share any sort of methodology and they don't ever share any kind of numbers. You know, I worked on those Superbowl was CBS this year and I can't talk to the, you know, the numbers. I know, but you know, it's too bad. CBS doesn't put out from their Conviva dashboard and Mux and all the other services being used here was the rebuffering rate because you know what, it was really, really, really low. Like why not put that out? It shows a great quality service. Mark Donnigan: 22:32 You made a good point earlier that it's very interesting that now, all these big companies are actually staging investor days, or investor conferences around their services, which is like has never happened previously. I wonder if this methodology is going to begin to make it in, you know, to some of the public disclosures, you know, in some way? Dan Rayburn: 22:55 Sounds great. But, come on, if you deal with investors, you know that you start talking even bit rate calculations with them and they can't figure it out. Right? I mean, so no, investors aren't worried about that stuff. They don't understand it. Um, I mean it's amazing how many people just just on LinkedIn alone, let alone the media, was comparing the success of Disney Plus based on the metric of when Netflix launched and it just, it boggles your mind, right? Because I stuck up on LinkedIn just real quickly, and this is all factual information you can easily look up, which you know, the media doesn't want to do. The year Netflix launched, there was only 34 million iPhones in the market. That's it. Now, smart TVs didn't exist at all. And two years later, in 2012, only 12 million were connected to the internet. And at the end of the first year of Netflix, Apple had sold 7.5 million tablets. So now you're going to compare Disney Plus launching in an era with over a billion iPhones alone and I don't know how many Apple iPads, smart TVs, and you're going to compare that and go, we've now deemed this a success because it's beaten something that launched nine years earlier. Yeah. The methodology is flawed, and forget bandwidth. I mean bandwidth back then compared to now. It's night and day. Mark Donnigan: 24:22 I was there. I was there in 2007 we were just launching VUDU and you know, on a dedicated set top box because that was the way that we could bring a guaranteed experience to the home. You know, it wasn't because, you know, VUDU wanted to be in the hardware business. Uh, and ultimately, you know, the company of course pivoted, you know, to an app on devices. But um, I can, I can remember having to think that that the average broadband capacity in the US in most markets was around two megabits. Dan Rayburn: 24:57 It was a different time, comparing something that long ago. But here's the biggest thing. The media doesn't write for accuracy like we talked about before. They write for one thing, headlines. So the moment you say this kills Netflix and this crushes Netflix or this did better than Netflix, what happens? People click on it because everybody's heard of Netflix. Cause the only way these guys make money is page views. So that's a whole different discussion. We're not going to get into, cause that's a whole different podcast. But the entire model for news on the internet is broken. And has been broken for years. When, it's based on just here's how many page views you have. So let's cram out more articles that are 800 words or less instead of actually telling us. Mark Donnigan: 25:38 So I think it's a interesting, you know, to talk about devices and since we are talking a little bit about history now, you know, there was a time where it was really critical that you got your service on a device and I'm kind of, you know, using "air quotes" there. Um, because if you were on a device that was widely sold, then you, you know, you had, um, you had an ecosystem you're a part of now with SDKs and API APIs and, and it's far more ubiquitous, you know, HTML5 apps and things like that, you know, with the app stores being clearly defined. Um, you know, basically you need to be in the, uh, Apple app store. You know, you need to be in the Google, uh, store, you know, for Android. Um, you need to be on about half a dozen connected TV platforms and then Roku and you've covered like 99% of the market. Right. Um, so what's your perspective of, you know, even like Nvidia launching, you know, the, Shield TV. Dan Rayburn: 26:43 And you know, just the role of devices. What are you, um, uh, you know, what are you seeing there? Well, you know, I think over time devices play less of an important role. And the only reason I say that is to your point, it's really about the platform now and it's about ecosystems and people pick certain devices or services because I'm already in the Apple ecosystem already. And the Android ecosystem, I already have a, you know, an Xbox one. Typically people who have an Xbox one is they're not going to then go out and buy a PS4 just because of a new service. So what we've seen over the years is no longer have services launched with exclusives on platforms. Like we saw when HBO Now launched, it was only available for the first 90 days on Apple TV. That's actually a disservice to the service. Dan Rayburn: 27:28 It's getting in fewer people's hands. So I think the devices we have in the market, I don't see that changing at all. Right. I think you have the major devices between Xbox, PlayStation, Chromecast, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon. Uh, who am I missing? Those are the seven major ones. I look at something like the Shield TV, which now has two new models from Nvidia, which I've, I've tested and played with. Yeah, it's a good device cause it's super fast. And the fact that it's built on Android, you know, you, you can go in there and you can install a Plex server on it, which works really well. It's a great device for Plex media server. Uh, but who's the video really targeting with the device? It's $200. Dror Gill: 28:09 People who like a nice design. I mean look at the shield TV. It's a cylinder shape. It looks exactly like the Roku Sound Bridge come to think of it. Dan Rayburn: 28:18 So the lower end model does, that's the one that's $149, the $199 model, which has storage in it and two USB ports. The original one you're talking about has no USB port, so you can't add additional storage, which is kind of a problem. Uh, you know, $200. Your really targeting the person who wants to build something at home. The enthusiasts, right? That's who you're targeting. I think that's great. Like there's nothing wrong with that, but I, you know, I questioned like, is that Nvidia's core business? No, it's not. But since they're making the chip inside, I get it. Their cost to produce that hardware is probably much cheaper than others because they're not paying for the chips since they own it. Um, but I don't think the hardware changes going forward. I, I do think we've seen an amazing amount of progress with smart TVs over the last five or six years. Dan Rayburn: 29:04 They actually work. Um, if you remember five or six years ago, you never wanted to launch an app on your smart TV cause you didn't know how long it would take a load. Now they work really well. They're pretty seamless. I mean, the new LG device that I just got the remote's really well thought out. It's smart. Uh, it's clean and simple. There's not a lot of bloatware on it. That's the other thing is a lot of these smart TVs used to have so much bloatware, especially Samsung, they've gotten much better at reducing that with removing what used to be mandatory ads. So I think the smart TV has gotten much better there. And I think for a lot of people that continues to be a device that grows down the line because it's all integrated into one. And that's also part of the, the reason Amazon came out with the cube and now the second generation cube, you know, really cool device that is voice-based and will automatically, when you say turn on Hulu, will know how to change your input know how to turn on your TV. It can also control your lights. We're starting to see more streaming services on these platforms that are being combined into the connected home. Dror Gill: 30:05 Right. And you see this with a, with Nvidia shield TV, right? It connects to your, uh, um, uh, nest to the Phillips Hue, to Netgear, all of that. Dan Rayburn: 30:14 I think that that's the future where some of this is going is they're no longer these companies and platforms and no longer looking at streaming services as an isolated service. It's one of multiple services in your house. It provides entertainment or lighting or something of that nature. And the Cube is a really cool device. I've spent a lot of time with the Cube. Um, we recently at the NAB streaming summit in October, we had one of the executives on stage doing a fireside chat with me. Really talking about the technology that went into it. And audio is really hard and I don't think people understand in the audio side just how hard it is to do things on the voice side and actually have it work on the back end and have it worked quickly and in real time. Uh, I would say right now Amazon is by far leading the market when it comes to the technology that they have for voice enabled applications. And you see that with the Cube, especially from first gen, the second gen, and on black Friday the price was down to $90. What do you think is going to be next year? Right. It's probably going to be 70 bucks, you know, just keep dropping. So yeah, I think that's pretty neat to see in our industry, just how streaming is now thought of as a one of many things in the home that we're using for entertainment. Yeah. Dror Gill: 31:24 And, and people are using voice actually they got used to talking to their devices? Dan Rayburn: 31:28 Well, from what we're hearing and the data we've been given. Dan Rayburn: 31:30 Hulu at the show said that uh, people who were using voice to find content tied into Amazon's products were watching 40% more Hulu and it makes sense because people know how to use their voice and they know what to say. When you're doing a search in, um, one of these services, do you put in the title? If the title is not perfect, what you put in, do you still get the right results? Many times? No. Whereas with your voice, it's much more natural in terms of how you're going to search for content. Dror Gill: 32:00 The LG remote, you mentioned earlier, it has like a single button. Then you talk to the remote and it automatically searches on all the applications that you haven't stalled on the TV and finds the content very simple. Dan Rayburn: 32:12 Also, if you don't want to do that, the pointer system's very simple. If you don't instead want to have to type stuff in, they give you flexible options, which I like as consumers, we will all want options and I think options are good. The downside to options obviously is too much choice, too much confusion, not sure what the business model is. And that's why a lot of consumers are going to jump amongst these services in 2020 because when you can try them for a week or 30 days, why wouldn't you? Mark Donnigan: 32:38 Well, Dan, I know you were telling us before we started recording about something really exciting you're doing at the NAB show, um, around devices. So, um, why don't you tell us, you know, what you got planned. Dan Rayburn: 32:52 Yeah. So this, this is pretty cool. Um, and we're going to have some, we're going to have some information on the website up pretty soon and you'll see me announce it sort of everywhere. Dan Rayburn: 32:59 But one of the problems I've always seen at conferences talking about our industry is we're all there talking about video, but nobody is showing it. We're talking about devices, but nobody's getting hands on with them. Nobody can see these platforms in action. And the three of us on the phone, we eat, sleep and breathe this industry. So we see all this stuff. We use all this stuff, but we're not the average consumer. We're not the average industry participant. So my idea here was the NAB show is, is the largest collection of people in the video world. Maybe not all streaming, obviously a lot of traditional broadcast, but those are the people we actually have to educate even more than people in our industry. So what we're going to do in April is for anybody who walked into the North hall lobby, if you remember, there wasn't really much in the North hall lobby. Dan Rayburn: 33:45 There's some little booths and some other things. Well, we're going to take over the North hall lobby and we're going to call it the streaming experience. And we're building out 12 living room style, uh, seating with large screen TVs. And every single TV in all 12 locations is going to be XBox, PS4, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, uh, what did I forget? It's basically gonna be every hardware device in the market today of the seven that we talked about earlier. And then on each one of those, there's going to be 50 different OTT platforms that you can test and these will be pay services, these will be AVOD services, these will be authenticated services. Think like a CBS sports or something like that. And any attendee to the NAB show can walk right in and say, you know, I really wanted to see what Netflix, HDR looks like here compared to you know, Amazon HDR or I want to see what bundling of content looks like. Dan Rayburn: 34:41 I want to see what UI and UX is compared to these services. I want to see how the ad supported services are doing pre-roll. I want to see what live sporting personalization looks like. I want to actually test an Amazon Cube and see how good it is in terms of understanding voice recognition. So we're calling it the streaming experience. We're going to have it out for three days. It's going to be a place where people can also just come to get questions answered about these platforms. I'm going to personally have my folks manning every single one of the stations. Uh, and in addition we're going to be giving away every single piece of hardware that we are installing during the event. We're going to be giving that away after. So, it's about $10,000 in gear, not including the TVs, which those are rentals, but everything else, uh, that we're buying, we're going to be giving away. Dan Rayburn: 35:33 So you're going to be able to get into some amazing raffles, some really good gear. And then in addition to that, we are also going to have a location in the middle of that area. The streaming pavilion, Oh, sorry. Streaming experience where you're going to be able to also test these streaming services on phones and tablets. Oh, that is awesome. And because we have to bring that experience in as well we can't only think large screen and if all works out, hopefully we might even have 5G demos. So these services working across 5G. So think of every service in the market, you know, all the live linear services, the on demand services, the free services, the authenticated services. I basically challenged people to come to the streaming experience and find a service that we don't have on on those devices and we'll have, we will have services from other countries. Dan Rayburn: 36:26 It's not just going to be the US I won't have everything. Obviously there's, there's some of these services that only work based on certain geo-fencing and certain locations. But we also already have some OTT providers who were saying, Hey, we're going to give you special accounts so that the services work for you as a demo even if it's not available in that region. So we have a lot of OTT companies that are working with us. We've got some that are partnering with us on a sponsorship level to really promote the service. And the other thing we're going to do is for the companies that really wants some feedback, we're going to have a, an attendee who comes up and let's say they use Hulu's service for a couple minutes and then they walk away before they walk away. We're going to say, Hey, fill out this quick card that has five questions on it. Dan Rayburn: 37:09 Would you buy this feature functionality? And then we're going to dump all that data back to the OTT platforms. Because now they're going to collect thousands, hopefully of real world feedback from customers who are using the service or thinking about using the service. So we want this to become a focal point for the show where people can come and just talk about these services, see them, compare them, test them. Win Some of this product, uh, get your questions answered. And then also use it as a way to collect data for the industry to share with the platform providers what is actually taking place. So I don't know of any other show that's doing it. It's something that I've been wanting to do for quite some time at this size and scale. And when you have the NAB behind it and once they start promoting it and we've got dedicated bandwidth for it. Dan Rayburn: 37:55 So we're making sure the experience is really good and I'm curating the entire thing so I am going to make sure everything works beforehand. We're there days in advance, I've already bought all the devices for the, for the event for months prior, right were we had them like it's about 2,600 accounts you have to set up across all the devices. It's a big undertaking. This is, this is serious, but it's going to be a good as we're calling it experience. So whether you're in the advertising market and you want to see what ads look like or you're in the compression business and you want to look at artifacting from one service to another, you want to look at 4K and lighting and HDR. You want to come. I think UI and UX is super important. So all those people that come to the NAB show that are doing design or creative UI and UX will come compare how they work and work between mobile and larger screen. So really whatever industry you're in and the NAB gets a lot of different people from different verticals and industries and regions of the world, this is going to be relevant to you in some way, shape or form and you're going to be able to see it free of charge. Dror Gill: 38:59 This really sounds amazing Dan. It's kind of a combination of a, of a playground that everybody wants to play with and also a way to experience, uh, all of this tests, right? And, and the way to experience a lot of things that you don't have access to because nobody can buy all of that gear and get access to all of those services at the same time. So you can really come in and experiment and see video quality as you said, UX, advertising, integration, everything. And also be able to talk to people who are, who are experts in this and can walk you through it. And the fact that you're feeding back the information and the comments from, uh, from the visitors, you know, back to the services is, is really a great service to the industry because then you can finally get those comments and uh, and information back. Dan Rayburn: 39:49 And we're also going to share it with the industry as a whole. We're definitely going to share here are some of the highlights we've seen from what consumers have been saying. And the other way I'm looking at this too is it educates two other portions of the market that are really important. It educates the media because now it's going to happen is when somebody wants to do an interview with Hulu who speaking at the show and you know, wants to talk about the platform. Somebody from Hulu is going to be able to walk them to the streaming experience and actually show it to them, which means hopefully they actually get the coverage accurate. So it's really important that the media sees the stuff. And second, the other market that we have at the show is investors. There's a lot of investors at the NAB show, institutional investors, and they don't get to see this stuff. Dan Rayburn: 40:29 So when they're making predictions about stock and about revenue and loss and capex and OPEX and all these other things that they use to determine success or failure of companies, the best way to do that is to actually see the product in action. So now you're also going to have investors who are going to be able to get hands on with this stuff even from a high level, which is going to benefit them. So I think overall it just benefits the industry. It benefits the platform providers, the consumers, the media, the investors. Those are really the five vertical markets that I'm trying to target. Dror Gill: 40:57 We need something like this. Um, you know, as an installation permanently somewhere. Dan Rayburn: 41:02 Yeah, maybe. I mean, I'm doing this with the NAB and that's, that's the exclusive, you know, group I'm working with now. I'm certainly not going to bring this to other conferences, but this is something that you're going to see now moving forward at NAB show in Vegas for sure. New York is much more difficult to do this only because of unions, some other, some other rules around that. But, uh, in Vegas, this is, you know, this is DnaB also planting a stake in the ground going, listen, you know, last year you walked into the North hall lobby and it was still so much of a focus on broadcast and traditional TV. Well, users are in for a, you know, wake up when they walk in this time and go, wow, what is all this streaming stuff? Mark Donnigan: 41:38 This is an amazing service that you're providing Dan. Uh, and we're gonna promote it and encourage everyone, uh, you know, our customers and those that are in, you know, in our sphere of influence, uh, to check it out, you know, really, cause this is, this is amazing. Dan Rayburn: 41:52 I'm excited for it. It's a lot of work and it's a huge undertaking. It is a lot of work. Yeah. It scares me at times. Just cause to do it right. It's, it's a lot of work. Um, but I'm going to have a good, I'm going to have a good team. I'm going to be flying in some, uh, some of my buddies from the special operations community who are, who are tech guys and they're, they're going to come help me in the booth and whatnot. And, uh, it's, it's going to be a good three days. Well, Mark Donnigan: 42:18 Dan, uh, this is, uh, you've been yet another amazing interview. Thank you so much for coming on the video insiders. Dan Rayburn: 42:26 Thank you for having me again. As you know, I can talk all day about this stuff. So it's a good thing you have to edit this down into something shorter. Mark Donnigan: 42:30 The next time we have you on, uh, I think, uh, will time, the timing will be good with some new, uh, things you have going. Dan Rayburn: 42:41 There'll be some other new things in the new year that I can't talk about now, but yeah, yeah. The, the, the idea of wanting to inform the market more and providing more resources for the community. That's, that's something that's coming up. Dror Gill: 42:51 Great. So thanks again. Thanks again for joining us today. Dan Rayburn: 42:54 Thank you guys. Announcer: 42:55 Thank you for listening to The Video Insiders podcast. A production of Beamr Imaging, Ltd. To begin using Beamr's codecs today, go to beamr.com/free to receive up to 100 hours of no cost HEVC and H.264 transcoding every month.

Josh and Kurt talk about the horrid state of digital literacy in the US. We start out talking about broken Phillips Hue light bulbs, then discuss research from Pew on the digital literacy of Americans. We may have accidentally discovered a use for all the cookie warnings every web site has. Show Notes Pew Research on American's Digitcal Literacy

Hallo und herzlich Willkommen zum KREWKAST! Ein wöchentlicher Podcast mit viel Gelaber über die KREW, Technik, YouTube, Abenteuer und vor allem was Julian und Felix so interessiert. In der vierundachtzigsten Folge quatschen wir über ne Menge Content-Tipps auf Youtube, Zelda Links Awakening, Julians Transformation zum Chef-Koch und ne ganze Menge Kommentare. Viel Spaß! Die heutigen Themen sind: 0:57 Begrüßung & "Was ging die Woche" 4:05 Julians Transformation zum Chef-Koch 21:26 Mini-Review zu "Zelda: Links Awakening" 33:33 Unsere Lieblings-Youtuber! 50:57 Eure Kommentare! 51:20 Phillips Hue als Video-Ausleuchtung 56:43 Spannende Grenzen & Morde im Niemandsland 1:04:02 Youtube Premium Cash 1:09:42 Pro-Kopf Ausstoß von CO2 1:15:00 Zu viel Politik & Zu viele Steuern? 1:31:05 Geheimes Youtube-Cash Thema für Audio-Zuhörer ;) Links zu unseren Youtube Tipps: Die Technik von Links Awakening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLGs0OygLFw Rap Schau: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ990mvm0_E CongTech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyJVAshplCY LEMMiNO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQdxHi4_Pvc Kölner Fahrradcops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snhp1IjBWgk Rémi Gaillard: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmPSwsooZq8an7xOLQQhAdw The Real Life Guys: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn0ITRHWS64_zRz5WWeQBkQ -------------------------------------------------------------- Hier sind wir sonst noch im Internet vertreten: Youtube Hauptkanäle: Felix: http://www.youtube.com/felixba Julian: http://www.youtube.com/owngalaxy Twitter: Felix: http://www.twitter.com/felixba Julian: http://www.twitter.com/julianvoelzke Instagram: Felix: http://www.instagram.com/felixba Julian: http://www.instagram.com/julianvoelzke Falls ihr euch fragt, wo wir unsere Hintergrundmusik her haben - schaut hier vorbei: ⇨ http://share.epidemicsound.com/plDDT * -------------------------------------------------------------- * = Bei allen Links, welche mit einem Stern gekennzeichnet sind, handelt es sich um Affiliate-Links. Dies bedeutet, dass ich eine geringe Provision erhalte, wenn du über diesen Link einkaufst. Vorteil dabei ist, dass sich der Preis für euch nicht erhöht und ihr meine Arbeit damit gleichzeitig unterstützen könnt.

Der er masser af nyt fra Apple, Galaxy Fold kommer måske endeligt, så er der nyt lys fra Phillips Hue og meget andet. Derudover er der masser af nyt hardware, en smart dims til Nintendo Switch og meget mere som du kan høre om i denne uges OneTake Gear...

Der er masser af nyt fra Apple, Galaxy Fold kommer måske endeligt, så er der nyt lys fra Phillips Hue og meget andet. Derudover er der masser af nyt hardware, en smart dims til Nintendo Switch og meget mere som du kan høre om i denne uges OneTake Gear...

Facebook Dating launches in the USI don't think I've ever heard anyone say they want another dating app, but here we are. The only plus - they have SO MUCH DATA ABOUT YOU already from when you weren't knowing you were being profiled for a dating app, that maybe their matching algorithm will be better than any other app?You need to opt in, you need to create a new profile, then people are presented to you and you can either comment or like their profile. It won't match you to any of your FB friends, unless both you and them have put you on the 'secret crush' list. Get ready for some fireworks in your social circles!The head of Twitter was hacked?Jack - the CEO of Twitter - had his phone number stolen and someone was able to tweet via text message some nasty stuff to his millions of followers. So now they've turned off the text to tweet feature for everyone. How do you get your phone number stolen? Some social engineering and a call to your phone provider.There's now an LED Edison bulb?You've probably seen the fancy edison lightbulbs which are all the rage - where you can see the filament of the bulb, well now Phillips Hue has created a smart LED version.It looks a little rubbish when it's off, but when it's turned on, it looks pretty good. Basically they've made a fake filament out of LEDs. It's connected to the Hue smart bulb system too so you can control it with your phone, voice or special wireless buttons. 

Hedebølgen er over Danmark og vi henslæber en sommer iført faktor 50 og shorts der på ingen måde klær en mand over 40. Heldigvis er der spil på tilbud på både playstation og PC og så længe der er pap-Rose vin i køleskabet er der ingen fare for at Eskapisterne hejser det hvide flag. Denne uge taler vi om MDF plader, Phillips Hue, Mass Effect Andromeda og Pathfinder Kingmaker.

Hedebølgen er over Danmark og vi henslæber en sommer iført faktor 50 og shorts der på ingen måde klær en mand over 40. Heldigvis er der spil på tilbud på både playstation og PC og så længe der er pap-Rose vin i køleskabet er der ingen fare for at Eskapisterne hejser det hvide flag. Denne uge taler vi om MDF plader, Phillips Hue, Mass Effect Andromeda og Pathfinder Kingmaker.

Hedebølgen er over Danmark og vi henslæber en sommer iført faktor 50 og shorts der på ingen måde klær en mand over 40. Heldigvis er der spil på tilbud på både playstation og PC og så længe der er pap-Rose vin i køleskabet er der ingen fare for at Eskapisterne hejser det hvide flag. Denne uge taler vi om MDF plader, Phillips Hue, Mass Effect Andromeda og Pathfinder Kingmaker.

When it comes to the Internet of Things, Daniel Herscovici (@DanHerscovici) believes consumers want integrated experiences rather than individual devices. It’s nice to have a Nest Thermostat or a Phillips Hue lightbulb or a smart security system, but if consumers have to manage each individually then they are no better than their analog forefathers. This isn’t a surprise from someone whose personal mission statement starts with “Balancing vision and force of will with the ability to partner is what separates the good from the great.” Herscovici is recognized as a leader in the Smart Home, IoT, and digital transformation. Over the past 20 years, he served in leadership roles at Fortune 50 companies like Comcast and Motorola and spent much of his career focused on creating new businesses within large enterprises. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded and led several new to market business lines focused on consumer tech and tech services. He has a passion for consumer-centric design and is always looking for innovative ways to address unmet, unarticulated market needs. In this replay of episode 8 of Future of Living, Daniel and Blake discuss Herscovici’s Five Pillars of the Smart Home Experience How property owners and Real Estate professionals can offer Internet service and security as an amenity. The biggest opportunities presenting themselves to Real Estate in today’s digital landscape. Learn more about Daniel and his current role with Edison Partners at https://www.edisonpartners.com. Dive deeper into what he’s thinking and writing about on his LinkedIn page. Find more of The Future of Living Podcast online at https://futureoflivingpodcast.com. Connect with us on Twitter and Instagram, @FutureLivingPod. The Future of Living Podcast is produced by Media Club. Learn more at https://mediaclub.co.

Heidi og Astrid har skaffet seg Google Home og flere lyspærer fra Phillips Hue, som betyr at Astrid endelig har fått sitt hvite lys og tv-stuen til Heidi er fylt av discolys i alle regnbuens farger, blinkende i takt med musikken. Men, er egentlig disse personlig taleassistentene mer moro enn faktisk nytte? Og er det ikke skummelt at vi tillater høyttalere som kan avlytte oss til enhver tid?    T A K K  for at du hører på oss! Vi setter stor pris på om du vil rate oss på iTunes! Følg oss gjerne i alle sosiale kanaler, og kast deg inn i diskusjoner, fortell oss hva du synes og tips oss om temaer du vil vi skal snakke om. Vi vil at alle skal være med og påvirke ‪#‎sosialtsett‬! Du finner Sosialt sett på Facebook, Instagram og Twitter. Mer om Heidi på www.flyas.no og mer om Astrid på www.valen-utvik.no Intro/outro - musikk av https://soundcloud.com/dj-nvu (Astrids sønn, Noah, 15 år).

In dieser Episode vor dem ersten Adventwochenende geht es um Weihnachtsgeschenke und die vorangegangene Black-Friday Woche. Des Weiteren sprechen Tom und André über USB-C Hubs, Laptops, Tom's Status rundum die Google Cloud und Phillips Hue für Neubauten.

5 tips to bring your homes Wi-Fi dead zones to life Error! Filename not specified. An interview with Wi-Fi Guru Jeffrey Parker, editor of the Milo Wi-Fi Blog Have you ever noticed certain locations in your home where Internet-connected devices and smartphones are unable to receive a steady Wi-Fi signal (or any signal at all) from your router? These sad places are called dead zones: Dead zones typically include bathrooms, second and third story bedrooms, attics, basements, garages, and back patios -- and they can drive everyone in the house absolutely crazy, says Wi-Fi Guru Jeffrey Parker, editor of the Milo Wi-Fi Blog. If Emma can’t access the Wi-Fi on her bed upstairs, then she can't Snapchat her friends or watch her favorite YouTube makeup vlogger. If the Wi-Fi doesn't reach the front door then the new Ring doorbell camera won't work. If Grandma can't access the Wi-Fi from the back porch, then she can't sit outside with her tea on Saturday morning browsing on her iPad. We expect to be able to stream video and data anywhere and anytime, but, unfortunately, traditional routers were designed during a time when video streaming was limited to only one or two locations in the home, such as the living room television. Additionally, smart home devices that rely on Wi-Fi to function, like Ring doorbell cameras, Nest Wi-Fi thermostats, Canary security cams, Phillips Hue light bulbs, and Wi-Fi smart plugs, were not available and popular with the home consumer, says Parker. So, given today's basement-to-attic demand for Wi-Fi access, what is the most economical and effective strategy for winning the battle against dead zones in our homes? Parker offers five no-cost/low-cost suggestions which he says can provide you and your family a joyous, satisfying Wi-Fi experience: 1. Keep your router away from metal Objects such as mirrors, televisions, appliances or anything large made primarily of metal (i.e. decorative furniture, filing cabinets, even fish tanks!) have the potential to impair your networks signal strength. Moving any problematic obstructions (if possible) or your router away from them may rid your living space of the dead zone. 2. Switch to a less crowded frequency In living spaces like apartment buildings, too many broadcasting networks can interfere with each other and impact Wi-Fi quality. Because routers broadcast across two wireless frequency bands, 2.4 and 5 GHz, when one is too crowded it acts like a highway packed with cars. Th

When it comes to the Internet of Things, Daniel Herscovici (@DanHerscovici) believes consumers want integrated experiences rather than individual devices. It’s nice to have a Nest Thermostat or a Phillips Hue lightbulb or a smart security system, but if consumers have to manage each individually then they are no better than their analog forefathers. This isn’t a surprise from someone whose personal mission statement starts with Balancing vision and force of will with the ability to partner is what separates the good from the great. Herscovici is recognized as a leader in the Smart Home, IoT, and digital transformation. Over the past 20 years, he served in leadership roles at Fortune 50 companies like Comcast and Motorola and spent much of his career focused on creating new businesses within large enterprises. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded and led several new to market business lines focused on consumer tech and tech services. He has a passion for consumer-centric design and is always looking for innovative ways to address unmet, unarticulated market needs. In this episode, Daniel and Blake discuss Herscovici’s Five Pillars of the Smart Home Experience, the future of ISP product offerings and his thoughts on the biggest opportunities presenting themselves to large corporations in today’s digital landscape. Learn more about Daniel and his current role with Edison Partners at https://www.edisonpartners.com. Find Future of Living online at:     • https://futureoflivingpodcast.com     • Twitter: https://twitter.com/FutureLivingPod     • Instagram: https://instagram.com/futurelivingpod

Today's main "So" is Home Automation. Zach just got some Phillips Hue bulbs, but Malin and Kai are already home automation experts. A brief detour is taken to discuss the Australian launch of Amazon Prime, followed by a comparison of smart home speakers and assistants. Kai and Malin then share their exciting Saturday night plan to revive a Mac mini. Your hosts are all on the Siri Shortcuts app beta, so they take a moment to discuss this and the future of Siri.

Episode 14: Home Automation Month! .:Smart Lights/Phillips Hue:. June is home automation month here at the Dad-I/O Podcast and this week we march forward with our most anticipated topic: Smart Light and Phillips Hue! We received a lot of requests for this topic in particular and we are excited to share how we have used these systems to totally transform our homes into automated SMART HOMES! We cover a lot of products this week, here are some links to the big ones: Phillips Hue: https://www2.meethue.com/en-us Belkin Smart Switch and Plugs: http://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F7C063/ TP-Link Smart Switch and Plugs: https://www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/cat-5516_KP100.html Hook RF Hub: https://www.hooksmarthome.com/ Look for another episode all about NEST Thermostats NEXT FRIDAY! Connect with us! Let us know about your own smarthomes and what questions you have! www.dadiopodcast.com Twitter: @dadiopodcast @dadio_ryan @andrewsnedeker Facebook: www.facebook.com/dadiopodcast

Just in time for summer Philips Hue announces a range of outdoor lights. Those lights work with the existing hardware so it means you're able to use the same bridge and the same app for your outdoor smart lights. Listen to the full episode to find out how much they are what features they bring and don't forget to check out our website; gadgetsm.art.

Episode 151 of InterBrews was recorded at Ingenious Brewing Company in Humble, TX with IBC’s Justin Gyorfi and The Hop Stop‘s Rick Tyler. Host Josh Stewart along with Schomberg (and Lucy) asks all about the story behind Ingenious, they’re approach to brewing, Phillips Hue lights, how NOT to use a samari sword, IBC’s upcoming grand […]

THIS WEEK we warm up for our RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD episode by discussing The Big E, stuff we missed while away, YouTube death, the terracotta army, Philips Hue, and whatever else wanders into our minds!     Join us for another nutty PREGAME!

John Boyd: LinkedIn Show Notes: 01:27 - Knocki 03:20 - The Device 06:19 - Complexity 08:44 - Software Distribution 14:01 - Allocating Memory 18:27 - Finding Hardware Hacking Libraries 22:01 - Updating and Diffing 24:06 - Migrations 26:51 - Decentralization of IoT 35:39 - Managing the Knocki Ecosystem 40:17 - Communication Standardization Resources: Malloc Transcript: CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode #81. My name is Charles Lowell. I'm a developer and your podcast host-in-training here at the Frontside. With me today is Elrick Ryan. Hello, Elrick. ELRICK: Hey, how are you doing Charles. Welcome back. CHARLES: Yeah, thank you. It's good to be back. Today we're going to be continuing the ongoing series that we've been doing intermittently on the Internet of Things. It's a really fascinating, almost to a person fascinated with here at the Frontside. Today, we have with us to talk about this, someone who's very, very knowledgeable on the subject, John Boyd, who I got an opportunity to talk with, I guess it was about a month ago and I wish that we had the podcast recording equipment there in the room because it was just a very, very well-versed engineer, exactly the person you want to be the CTO of your company, which is very lucky for Knocki, the company that he works for, because he is in fact the CTO there. Welcome to the show, John. Thanks for coming. JOHN: Yeah, thank you very much, Charles and I'm excited to be here. I'm excited to join the conversation this week. CHARLES: Yeah, why don't you start by what it is that you do at Knocki? Most of our audience comes from software and design and product management backgrounds. You've got a very strong hardware background. How does that play in to what you do at Knock? JOHN: Yes, certainly. As you previously mentioned, I'm CTO at a startup called Knocki, which you can mount onto any surface and turn that surface into a user interface. We're recently funded on Kickstarter so we're in the process of actually trying to develop this hardware but the central concept is any surface that you mount this on will now listen for touches and vibrations so you can say, mount it on a desk and tap three times on your desk and control your smart home around you. If you have smart speakers or TV, you can tap three times out of four times and control those devices with a really natural interioractive interface made out of anything in your home already. CHARLES: Tabletops, mirrors, I assume you've tested this on a lot of different services. JOHN: Yes, I'm sure we'll talk about that more a little bit later but the goal is to be able to turn any surface into user interface. That means if you really wild and you want to use it on the window, I recommend it. But we're thinking desks, walls, doors. It has a lot of applications for disabled and handicapped individuals. Think of a child or someone in a wheelchair that can't quite reach a light switch, if they have a Knocki mounted on the wall, they can still knock on the wall to control the lights. We feel like it adds a new level of user interface to people's lives that can be helpful. CHARLES: Definitely. Seeing the product and hearing you talk about it, I definitely got that impression. Now, the device that you actually brought into the office because you did come in and talk to us, like I said it was about a month ago but it was extremely tiny. In our explorations into the Internet of Things, we do things like control our lights from within the office. At least, we're trying to control our lights within the office. For us, we're using the standard kit. We've got Raspberry Pis that we're using, that are have access to a plug and they've got a full Linux install, just a really powerful processor and by comparison to the things that you were talking about, that's energy hog by comparison. We think of it as being very lightweight but if you're talking about making some small device, it's actually really, really wasteful of resources, so to speak. What is that transition that spectrum which you moved from these one-off hobbyist things where you're using high-powered equipment to these really custom devices? How do you make that transition? And what is the difference between the two? JOHN: Our devices are about the size of a hockey puck, which is much smaller if you can think of a Raspberry Pi. Pretty difficult to fit that inside of a hockey puck, especially when you want to start adding some sensors to detect knocks and taps on a surface. I don't hate or dislike the Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black or any of those really quick SBCs that can get you started with IoT. But they have -- CHARLES: Acronym alert. What is an SBC? JOHN: SBC, single board computer. It's any of those credit cards size computers. CHARLES: Okay, great. So nothing against the SBCs like BeagleBone Black or Raspberry Pi. JOHN: Exactly. It's a great way to prototype ideas and get in a proof of concept out there and there are some cases where actually, they're great choices for a full-fledged product. A lot of cases in IoT, people are more concerned with things that you carry around with you so they have to be battery powered and you need to be a little bit more conscious about energy economy. You need to be very cost-effective with your components and it doesn't make sense to buy an expensive Raspberry Pi for each unit. CHARLES: Did you actually start with a Raspberry Pi, when you were developing this product or something that's like an SBC? JOHN: I actually went straight to a microcontroller dev kit. I started with Texas Instruments' CC3200 LaunchPad. It's a little bit lower level than SBC like the Raspberry Pi. It doesn't run Linux. The firmware I started off writing as a proof of concept was still embedded C bare metal software. CHARLES: How much complexity does that add? There's just a lot of nice things about having an operating system and being able to have your compilers, I guess you have a compiler tool chain, but having being able to install big programs like interpreters so that you can run Ruby and JavaScript on there. There's just nice things like scheduling. If you've got a bunch of processes running on this device, you don't have to worry about them, saying who's going to get what processor time. I assume that you're having to deal with all of that if you're writing the firmware by hand using C, right? JOHN: That's 100% true. There's definitely some great advantages to using a little more powerful system that can run a full Linux stack or full OS. As you mentioned, the design complexity is reduced a lot because you can import other people's code and you have a full operating system to handle most of the drivers in the system. You're right. There's a lot more complexity. We have to write all of that ourselves in C. But that's the fun part about it to me. I love getting down there and writing drivers that can communicate with accelerometers and set them up. As far as scheduling goes, for getting concurrent software running on your embedded system. There are RTOS's -- real-time operating system that can provide basic scheduling. For the brave, you don't even have to use that. You can use a lot of the embedded timers inside the microcontroller itself. But to answer your question, it is a lot more complex but one of the tradeoffs to get a device that small, beautiful and also has a battery life that can last many months or a year. CHARLES: Yeah, it almost sounds like the complexity but you're not going to save yourself any time prototyping it in tools that have all those things because you're essentially going to have to be rewriting your system from scratch, because those things are just a nonstarter if you want low profile devices. JOHN: Yeah, there's definitely a lot of rework would have to be done but those SBC systems are still very useful for prototyping the cloud side. Internet of Things is hardware and internet when it comes to building out your cloud interface. CHARLES: Yeah, that's definitely true. You're running a bunch of software on this device. The software that you've written, how do you actually distribute the software because we're very used to in our world, software distribution is not a problem. That's what made the web so popular. While we were willing to deal with really crappy tools on the web for a really, really, really long time, the distribution model was just so nice. You're also having to deal without that too when you're operating in the device space. But the challenges are still there. If you've got a bug on one of these things, how do you even detect it and how do you get a fix out there? JOHN: Obviously, any software is prone to bugs. Nobody writes a perfect code the first time. If you do, I'd love to hear about it. Obviously, one of the big concepts in IoT is security and to have a secure product, we need to be able to patch bugs as they arrived. A big really important feature in any good IoT product is the ability to remotely upgrade the firmware or send the patches as part of the maintainability that prevents big software bugs from turning your IoT product network into a botnet. A lot of our time is actually spent trying to make sure that our remote update capabilities are reliable, always functioning and globally distributed. You'd think this is an easy problem to solve but when you're working on a microcontroller that's not running an operating system, running bare metal code, things get a little bit more complicated when you want to make sure that any device anywhere in the world can install the next version of firmware reliably. CHARLES: Right. At any time there's a software update, it's always, it bugs me and then do I want to do this and it's always optional. There's none of that, right? It's just what a new version of the firmware goes out, boom! It goes out there. JOHN: You can design it in different ways. There are some great products out there. Apply the firmware update through the user's phone so you may open up your products application and it says, "There's an update available. Go update." That's definitely one way to do it but that's the problem if the user is not home and maybe they've set this device up in a guest house and they won't be home for six more months, then you have a device that could be vulnerable for six months, which is a long time in the world of software. CHARLES: Yeah, that's true. JOHN: To get around that, obviously our preferred solution is to have the device checked into our cloud servers to see if the device itself has updates available and then go through the download and update process that way, just to make sure even if the user is not home or never opens their mobile app, it will still get those critical security updates. CHARLES: Sounds hard. You're running a risk of bricking someone's device if that update doesn't go very well or it loses internet in the middle or power. JOHN: Very true, especially when you go towards a bare metal microcontroller with limited memory and limited processing capabilities, unreliable internet connection, a lot of work has to be done on the device side to make sure if something goes wrong during the firmware download process or installing the image correctly that it has a backup image. If you're downloading a new firmware upgrade and the download gets corrupted halfway through, make sure you have an old image that you can boot into. That's one part of it. The other part is detecting that it went bad if it gets past downloads in your image and then it reboot itself and tries to boot into it, how do you know that that image actually isn't behaving the way you want it to and then go ahead and revert back into that original stable version. CHARLES: I assume there's some key so that you can verify, not only that the image is not corrupt but it's a certified Knocki image that's coming down the wire? JOHN: Exactly. We signature verification, again something that I think anybody on the internet should be using when you download new software but make sure that the new firmware update was actually written by Knocki and you're not installing someone else's code. Another important factor is just please use HTTPS secure SSL connections to your server, then that reduces the possibility of someone taking over and giving you their own firmware image. But there are a lot of low power devices out there that are being used to make IoT products. These low power devices are important for many reasons but they have restrictions and sometimes, their security capabilities are limited. Maybe doing encryption on the device and actually are doing certificate verification. That's a costly operation. CHARLES: It sounds like there's a lot of cycles that that consumes. JOHN: Definitely. Most people try to make sure they have the resources to solve these problems but at the same time, there are a lot of developers out there that are cutting corners and that's where you get these big news stories about IoT products getting taken over. CHARLES: Along that vein, it's your reality but it constantly blows my mind that things that you're living without when you're programming for these devices like Knocki is do you have to write your own network stack? When you're doing these downloads, that's kind of like got it all. You've got the encryption piece that you've got to do to make sure that you're connecting over SSL so you've got to do the whole handshake and you've got to do the key exchange and the certificate verification and then the packets come in asynchronously so your message is arriving asynchronously in bits so the header is being assembled, now I've got the HTTP headers, now I can go ahead and get the body. There's a lot that happens for us when we're making a simple Ruby request. We're basically like resource.get. Boom! And it just comes to us fully assembled in memory. How much do you have to hand roll all of that? Are there libraries for doing it? How do you put that process together of just even downloading the image? JOHN: Fortunately, there are tons of open source freely available libraries for embedded C software that can help us solve these problems -- CHARLES: Is this like a genre of software like if I want to go look for these libraries, how I look for them? JOHN: In my example, all of our firmware is written in C or C++. Since we're working on a microcontroller with limited resources, it's important to look for libraries that don't use dynamic memory allocation. That's why it's a really big [inaudible]. Some software relies really heavily on that but -- CHARLES: When you say dynamic memory allocation, you're talking about like Malloc? JOHN: Exactly. CHARLES: You are basically are allocating memory on the heap. When you're doing for this, you basically want to do everything on the stack. Now, is that just because the instruction set of the processor doesn't support it or is it because it's just there be dragons like here there be dragons? JOHN: That particular scenario is actually just due to resource limitations. There's just not a lot of memory on our device. We do use Malloc in some cases but we have to be very careful about when we use it and make sure that it's always going to have the memory required or if it doesn't have the memory required, there's some fail safes involved. If you just use someone else's open source library and they're allocating memory left and right, they could end up causing issues on your embedded system. CHARLES: Right. Now, just a little bit of background for people who might not be fully familiar with Malloc, it's just when you're executing a program, you have this heap memory, which is where you store random stuff and then you have your stuff on like the call stack. Your variables that are on the call stack are in one place and then your just generic data structures that could be accessed from anywhere are in this thing called the heap. Our dynamic languages that we use like Ruby and JavaScript, the heap is hot stuff. Like everything gets allocated on the heap, that's why they consume these huge amounts of memory and then the things that are on the stack, really are just pointers that are referencing these big bags of data that are on the heap. But it sounds like you've got the exact opposite situation where you don't want to have big bags of memory that are just floating around in a heap and you want to do everything inside that stack. JOHN: Exactly. I couldn't have said it better. CHARLES: Anyway, you're looking for libraries that don't do that because it sounds like any time you want to allocate memory on the heap, that's going to be shared for the whole program, that space is very limited so you want to be very, very, very strict. You want to control that process. You don't want any other library that's doing it for you. Is that fair? JOHN: That's correct. That's also one specific example, dynamic memory allocation of the things that you want to make sure your other software libraries aren't going to be abusing. But in general, you need to make sure that any code that you're putting is compatible with your system. It doesn't have some special hardware requirement that your embedded system doesn't have. CHARLES: Right. For people who want to get into hardware hacking, is there some golden seal of approval like the people say like, "This library is great for embedded devices." Like I said, a lot of times when you're coming into it, you don't know what to look for so what you're really looking for is some expert or authority on the subject who can say, "This is good. This is not good." It is like, "Don't even look at this library because you're going to find something else because this is not embedded-friendly." JOHN: That's a good point. I wish there was a golden seal of approval or I wish I knew one, at least. Normally, most of our code that we uses are hosted on GitHub. Usually, we try to find software that was optimized from embedded systems and the author of that code will usually mention -- CHARLES: That [inaudible] me. JOHN: Exactly. This was designed for microcontrollers. ELRICK: I was going to ask if there's a golden standard when you're building these type of devices. Is there a checklist of things that if someone's going to build something similar that these are good things on your checklist that you should attempt to check off, if you're building this sort of device or want to build something similar. CHARLES: Now, you mean things like update and whatnot? ELRICK: Like updating or like how you were mentioning avoiding dynamic memory allocation. Anything, you can just shoot from the hip, like these are things that you should watch out for a lot of your battery power, you should look out for this or anything. JOHN: Yes. I definitely think the number one consideration that the biggest check box and [inaudible] before it goes out the door is going to be your security suite. Make sure your internet connections are encrypted: SSL, TLSL, that good stuff. Then as we hit on earlier, making sure that you always have a way of updating the device but don't use back doors. A lot of people think to update your device, you should put a back door access and you can go in and download updates that way. That's not the answer. ELRICK: That's like the back door that they were looking for in Apple like, "Do you guys have a backdoor to get into your device?" No. JOHN: No. That can be a controversial conversation. CHARLES: Yeah, or they're like, "Come on, really. It's okay. You can show us the backdoor." No, there is no backdoor. "I know you have to say that. Blink-blink." ELRICK: That's an interesting problem that you guys are solving on how to update these devices. You guys are essentially hand rolling or developing custom software to do that. JOHN: Again fortunately, we're using a Texas Instruments SSC system on a chip. They provide some core functionality, some core drivers that really help us out. For example, they provide a special bootloader that can really assist with a lot of the firmware download back up framework image checking, that sort of functionality. We don't have to write it all by scratch but we do have to write the logic to make sure that the device does check for updates and it doesn't forget to check in and talk to us. ELRICK: On the cloud side, do you guys have to write any custom software to do diffing, to make sure like -- Oh, do you diffing? Or do you just update everything all complete, like once you're updating, you're going to get a brand new update or do you diff and say, "You only need this." JOHN: Since we're working on the system that we're using, it just requires a fully-compiled image that gets installed by the bootloader. We can't really send just a patch to one part of the firmware, if that's what you're asking. CHARLES: But I assume there must be some state that's on the Knocki itself. Just even the credentials for the local Wi-Fi network, what devices it's connected to, part of the system is updating and part of it is not, I assume but how do you make sure that that state is compatible with the new firmware? JOHN: Yeah, that's another great point to keep in mind. The way we keep most of, we call it nonvolatile memory, every time the device reboot, it's going to forget about everything that was stored in RAM so we need to have somewhere in nonvolatile to store these things. We have a file system on the device that we can create files with different device configurations, algorithm, settings, Wi-Fi credentials, that sort of stuff. CHARLES: That file system, is that anything that we would even be familiar with like ZFS or is it just a custom file system that you've written or that you found on GitHub. JOHN: No, fortunately this is just a standard FAT file system. We do have some creature comforts there but that's not necessarily the norm. CHARLES: You heard it here. Is that FAT16? JOHN: No, it's FAT32. CHARLES: FAT32, described as creature comfort. JOHN: Yeah, we have a different perspective of creature comfort. CHARLES: There's a couple of things because immediately, what this brings to mind is for people who are familiar with Ruby on Rails, they have this concept of migrations, where you're migrating the schema of your database and as you have to transform the data from one format to the other, you're running these migrations. One of the things that's nice about that is if, let's say I have some system that is at Version 1, but let's say, I have one of the devices that hasn't taken an update, it starts at Version 1 and it needs to go to like Version 100. But you could have 10 format changes in between there. Is there a way to handle that case where you're basically incrementally applying a bunch of transforms? JOHN: Yes. That's another great point. We take this on a case-by-case basis. Fortunately, being a small relatively simple system, there's not a whole lot of state data to keep track of. But to handle that situation, we've written are own OTA server-side software that manages the devices sending updates -- CHARLES: Acronym alert, OTA? JOHN: I'm sorry, yeah. Another acronym, OTA -- over the air updates. That's our slang for remotely sending firmware updates. CHARLES: Sorry to interrupt. It's just we have to unpack acronyms. JOHN: No, I'm sorry. I use a lot of jargons here. CHARLES: You know what? The thing is, so do I and I just never even notice it. JOHN: To handle that scenario, the way we handle it, our cloud knows what devices are out there and what firmware updates we've sent out to it. Furthermore, when the device checks in with the cloud and ask, "Do I have an update available?" It also tells the cloud, "By the way, I'm running Version 1.0." The cloud knows, if it's on Version 1.0, there's going to be some incremental changes that need to be made before we get to that last update and we can apply those changes incrementally. CHARLES: I see. I feel like we've touched on so many of these concepts that are universal to development but only projected into the hardware space. We've talked about dynamic allocation of memory and data migrations and it sounds like what you're describing in a way with OTAs is continuous delivery, where you have some way of automatically pushing out an update and all the stuff that's involved in that. It's just really cool to hear to view through such a vastly different lens than what we're used to. ELRICK: We've been talking a lot about communication between devices and back to the cloud in things of that nature. Does that play into the conversation around decentralization of IoT infrastructure and what does decentralization of IoT even mean? JOHN: Decentralization as a new methodology or ideology that a lot of people are adopting, I shouldn't say new. It's been around forever but the idea is from a high level, looking at the internet, most of the internet is access through some central, server is hosted on you name it -- XYZ cloud hosting provider. The way you do your URL DNS resolution that goes through centralized DNS servers that say, "You want to look at Netflix?" Netflix is stored over here on this AWS server farm. Decentralization, the idea is we don't necessarily need to talk to this DNS server and talk to AWS just to get content from specific providers. If you look at IoT for example, a lot of times in our case, we want to tap three times on the table and then later on, it will do the cloud, send the message and then turn on your Philips Hue light bulb in the living room. It would be great if the message could just go directly from Knocki to the Philips Hue light bulb, rather than going to our cloud, on some centralized hosting provider, then to Philip Hue's cloud, on their provider then out to the Philips Hue light bulb. Those are some of the really popular technologies that's a lot of people are talking about that really take advantage of the concept of decentralization. But it does -- CHARLES: Let me understand because why these would be necessary. When I get why it's compelling, if I want to have my Knocki talking directly to my Philips Hue light bulb without getting your servers involved, without getting Hue's servers involved, it seems like it's going to be a lot faster and just a lot more robust. There's just less links in the chain but it presents its own problems, like on both ends of the conversation between the Knocki and the Philips Hue, how do they agree that this is sanctioned by a user? That's just leaps out. That's a hard problem to solve. ELRICK: That you use some sort of like public-private key type of encryption to say, "It's me. Am I allowed to do this?" CHARLES: How do you decentralize that? JOHN: Well, I'd like to preface this by saying I'm not an expert on that particular subject but the goal is, if you're familiar with the bit torrent protocol and how it keeps track of a lot of different peers on a network using distributed hash tables, the idea is if you know at least one other person on the network, that person can say, "There's some other people that you may be interested in talking to, that may actually want your message. I'm just a bystander on the network and I don't really need your message but this guy is interested in it." In our application, that would be our server. We have to ask our server, who's out there that wants to hear what I have to say. The server is going to say, "Knocki 123, this Phillips Hue is over here at this address, this unique resource identifier, he's going to be very interested when you have two taps or three taps on the desk so just go ahead and talk directly to him. You don't need to talk to me." There's a lot more of that goes into that about making sure that the network can heal itself if somebody goes offline. But as I said I'm not really an expert in that subject. CHARLES: Right, but it really is compelling. Would you then, maybe have some device that was just kind of your coordinator in your home or multiple devices that would act as these bit torrent trackers? JOHN: Yeah, I think -- CHARLES: Or would the devices themselves actually be able to do that, like the Knocki could actually participate in the conversation about what other devices there were in the home. JOHN: Exactly, yeah. I think in a true peer-to-peer network, any peer can talk to another peer and eventually learn where the other node that they want to talk to is. You don't have to talk to any one particular person but you can ask anybody and they can tell you how to talk to the person you're looking for. The really big advantage to decentralization in my opinion is security. A lot of times if everything is controlled through one central point, that's one central point of failure. If someone DDOS's your cloud service, then now your entire network of devices is offline, just because one location got attacked. If it's a decentralized network, there's no one central point of failure and it's very, very difficult for someone to attack your network. CHARLES: Right, that's true but the tradeoff then is complexity that your decentralize network has to agree, somehow come to some consensus. It's very easy to generate with consensus when you have one process or one point that's driving everything. JOHN: Exactly. Another big tradeoff is ownership of the data and enterprise today are really big revenue your point for a company is being able to have ownership of data and extract meaningful insights. But if your device doesn't talk to your central server every time I want to do something, how does your server know everything that your device is doing and you lose a lot of that data. There's a tradeoff there in how you're going to get the data you need to run your business but also let your device run autonomously on decentralized network. ELRICK: Do you think that this is going to be helpful or harmful to IoT? What's your views on decentralization? JOHN: I think it could be very powerful. Right now, I'm not aware of any products that are really using a decentralized architecture for IoT and the main reason for that is companies and developers are a little slow to adopt it because they want to have that ownership of every data packet that goes to the network. They own it. They can see it. But I think in the future, people will start to realize that they can still get the data that they need to run this business. They can still have visibility and control over the network the way they need to run their business without controlling every single packet. When that happens, I think it's going to be a revolution for the internet as a whole but it's really going to revolutionize IoT and devices will get lower power. They'll get faster and they'll get more secure. CHARLES: When you say being able to get the data that they need, is it just being able to asynchronously spool off the data later? I guess I'm trying to understand how they get the data if it's never talking to some central servers? Or is it just you will get the data at the time you want it or there will be some delay? I assume you can also have your server being part of... I don't know. I'm just curious how you see that playing out. JOHN: I think, every developer is going to have to tackle that on a case-by-case scenario but take for example a big brand smart thermostat company. They have a device that's going to control your AC heating and air and the house and it also collects a lot of the data from when you're home and when you're using it to be smart and adjust the temperature at certain times of day even when you're not home. Again, I don't work for any company that does that and I don't know how they're doing their devices under the hood but traditionally, they tap to a centralized server and they send a lot of this information whenever it's happening, always to the server. Every time the user adjust the temperature, it sends an update to the server and says, "The user just updated." In a decentralized network, these devices can just talk to themselves and say maybe periodically or every day and it'll just send one update and say, "The user adjusted it." You can still talk to a central server but it doesn't have to rely on the central server. CHARLES: Right. It's just what we call, an out of band process. JOHN: Exactly, not mission critical. CHARLES: Okay, I got it. Talking about the decentralization and interacting with other devices, how do you manage the ecosystem right now with Knocki? It's a general purpose interface to rise. It serves really the role of a keyboard or a mouse or some way of controlling other devices and other systems. I assume that in order to do that, you have to understand the capabilities of those systems or maybe you don't. How do you integrate these two devices? Let's go with the thermostat and the Knocki or maybe one that you're more familiar with that you've done. Do you all have to write the integration? Can a third party write the integration? Or is there some way to automatically discover and map the existing inputs of the device. I feel like we've got all these new devices are coming out day to day then and now, there's more and more permutations in which to confine these devices into a coherent system and I'm just curious to hear about that integration story from your perspective. JOHN: Certainly. If we want to configure our Knocki to tap three times and turn on our Philips Hue light bulbs -- I keep using Philips Hue just because that's what I've been actively working on lately. We currently rewrite the integrations in our own backend so the user pulls up the mobile app and says, "Knocki on my desk, every time I tap three times, listen to this Philips Hue," and then we have an integration where in the mobile app, they can essentially set a lot of the parameters that a Philips Hue light would use based on API that Philips Hue would provide us. That's the way most integrations are going to happen with third party products. They expose an API and we can write a little module and the user can configure that API. CHARLES: I see and as far as making affordances for third party people, if they want to change the behavior or add like intelligence, obviously they can configure it from the app but if I want to say add behaviors or something like that. JOHN: When you say add behaviors, you mean add new -- CHARLES: I mean like, rather than turning the lights on and off, say I want to strobe the lights or flash the lights, maybe I'm someone who's running a theater or something and during intermission, I want to knock three times to flash the overhead lights. I don't know if that's something that your integration with Hue could do but if I want to be able to add that. JOHN: Okay, I see your question. We try to enable as much of the products functionality as possible through our own integration on our mobile app but say, you're a hacker and you've come up with your own smart light that turns on any sort of party mode and flashes different colors whenever you want and your Philips Hue or any other smart light just can't quite do what you wanted to do. In the future, our goal is to have an open API that people can access and they can hopefully control their own homemade IoT devices. CHARLES: Now, what about for existing ones. You can definitely flash the lights with the Philip Hue but you're going have to have some custom software to do it, right? Do you see what I mean? You have to send a series of messages to it in sequence. JOHN: In that scenario, we currently don't support that and don't have a plan to support that. In our research, that's a really small use case of people that would be interested in that. Also, it's difficult now if we wanted to do some sort repeated command, you knock three times and then every 30 seconds, it's going to send a command in your light bulbs. We have to be careful about having processes that run away and you have a bunch of CPU power forever in the cloud. We may include features like that in the future. I think the most likely path for that sort of stuff is we'll have an open API that people can direct Knocki's inputs to their own server and then their own server can flash their Philips Hue lights as much as they want. ELRICK: Is there any standardization between the communication and what these API supposed to look, like the communication between devices? anyone can have an API, expecting one thing and someone that's writing software to communicate with that, wouldn't have to go look it up. Do you know of any standardization? JOHN: Yes. I know there have been a couple of companies out there trying to put a standard on the market and I think a standard would be a great idea. ELRICK: Yeah, I think so too. JOHN: It would be wonderful if we could just write generic control structures or information flow structures and anybody can hook their stuff up to it. As far as I know, I haven't seen any that really fit the bill. CHARLES: It feel like there's something that programming systems like software developers have been chasing for a long time is to have some distributed set of peers that they can look each other up. You can discover the capabilities of a thing without ever having to even know about in the first place. But I haven't really known that worked really well and hit that sweet spot. I'm thinking of DCOM and Java. There's like Java distributed beans or something like that. You have this idea of these objects in the cloud, which seems kind of analogous to what we're talking about now, except we're talking about actual devices, rather the software devices but who knows. Maybe it'll pan out where we'll have some standard for discovery and integration. JOHN: It's interesting that there hasn't been one already. You look at IoT and it's really ripe for standardization because a lot of the communication between devices takes the same format. You're generally just passing a small message saying, on or off or, "I read this temperature at 75 degrees. Who knows, maybe someone will solve it. CHARLES: Yeah, maybe so. Maybe the folks at Kasita. They're active integrators. They were on the podcast two episodes ago and one of their challenges was getting all these 30 things to talk together well. Maybe we can follow up with them and if they could have a standard, what they would like it to look like? JOHN: If they get on that, I would love to hear what they were working on. CHARLES: I think, maybe they mostly, have a wish list. It is like, "I wish it did this. I wish it did this. I wish it did this." ELRICK: Maybe we need to have like a 10-way podcast. It's like IoT companies and we can hash it out like the TC39 of IoT on the Frontside Podcast. CHARLES: Right, and then everybody punches each other. All right, well thank you so much, John for coming and talking with us. It's always fascinating. You can find Knocki at @Knocki on Twitter and Knocki.com. It's a great product and like I said, always a fascinating conversation so thank you so much for coming on the show. JOHN: Yeah, thank you very much for having me. It was a great conversation. CHARLES: With that, we'll say goodbye. Thank you, Elrick. ELRICK: Thank you. CHARLES: We are, as always, the Frontside at @TheFrontside on Twitter, Frontside.io on the web or just drop us a line over email, Contact@Frontside.io. Thanks everybody.

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Stephen and David spend most of this weeks show talking about home kit and the difference between Home Kit and the Internet of Things:   Some notes for listeners: What is the Internet of Things? The internet of things is where a device has network connectivity data and shares information back to a computer or smartphone.  An example is the Parrot Flower Power.  It looks a bit like a twig and you put it in a plant - then download the Flower Power app on to your iPhone and connect to the Parrot Flower Power through Bluetooth. You put into the app the type of plant the device is in and it will tell you how much water and sun the plant is getting through collecting this data with a solar and water detector. You receive alerts if your plant needs more water - or if it needs to be moved into the shade.  There are many apps like this available for many items that you may have in your home. But for each item you wish to interact with - there is an app. Which means many apps to go in and out of.  What is a connected home?  A connected home is where you can control accessories in your home, such as lights, door locks, security cameras, temperature control and power sources.  Each item in a home can be controlled separately  But with Apple's HomeKit - they can all talk to one another in the same app.  And even more exciting - be controlled via the built in personal assistant, Siri. Turning on your lights will be as easy as saying, “Turn on the lights” You might be asking, but how does it work?  Is Apple making lights now?  No…  In iOS 10, there is a new app for the platform, called the Home App.  Home App allows you easily connected HomeKit enabled devices and create a smart home. It is accessible on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and even the Apple TV.  You can set up each of the devices on a full customisable Home screen. And you can set up scenes so that a series of events occur at the same time.  For example, you can set up an “I'm Home” scene, which will mean your front door will unlock with a schlage door lock, your lights will turn on with Phillips Hue lights and your temperature control will activate.  Or you can turn lights on and off in one area through the app, or just using Siri “Hey Siri, turn off the bedroom lights” Apple Watch will also have quick glances, so that you can easily access the actions you may require on your wrist. You can also swipe up on your Control Centre and immediately have access to controlling your home.  And all of this can use the Personal Assistant of Siri.  Use Siri to activate a Scene or an individual item.  Setting up HomeKit accessories are very easy! Just tap on the Add button in the Home App, scan the barcode on the box that the item came in - select the name and room and you are done.  You can use Apple TV and your Apple ID to become remote access to your home. You can be away from home and using your iPhone that is with you, say “Hey Siri, did I leave my front door unlocked?” Siri will go back to the Apple TV connected on the same network on your phone, check the status of your door lock and tell you. You can then ask Siri to lock the door, unlock the door if a friend is wanting to get in, or turn your lights on and off.  HomeKit can also do event and time triggers  - even if you are not there.  Such as time based trigger - to turn your lights on every evening at 7pm.  Or geo based - so when you arrive home with your iPhone - the front door will automatically unlock.  All of this is done in a secure and private manner - the protocol or home kit is a two way handshake to securely set up the device.  To be secure Apple could not simply integrate with existing hubs and smart devices.  It had to build a platform and then convince third-party companies to build to it.  Not only did this entail programming, but Apple was also requiring the integration of secure hardware for end-to-end encryption. Apple's commitment to security means they did not want any cloud-based services, no surreptitious data gathering to learn more about your habits. Nothing leaves the confines of the accessory-Apple HomeKit relationship.  Which means your home is secured, and the data on when you enter and leave and turn on your lights and everything else, remain secure and private to you.  You can invite other users to access your home and you can add and remove people as needed. So if you have a house guest, they can turn on the lights. Also, with Apple TV now having the Home App also, they can control your home through the Apple TV.  For further info: http://www.apple.com/ios/homekit/

Welcome to episode 26, Twitter: @Leonhitchens @sunnysinghio Follow us on: Twitter.com/digitalbounds Like us on: Facebook.com/digitalbounds Add us on: Snapchat.com/add/digitalbounds Google Account engine problems: http://www.androidcentral.com/google-accounts-are-fritz-nobody-getting-hacked http://digitalbounds.com/2017/02/23/google-wifi-routers-crashed/ https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/02/24/gmail-unexpected-sign-account-hack/ Cloudflare crazy problem: AKA Cloudbleed http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/24/14723184/cloudflare-leak-cloudbleed-passwords-dating-site-messages SmartDesk Review: http://digitalbounds.com/2017/02/24/autonomous-smartdesk-review/ P.S. I bought Spectacles and Phillips Hue

It's the holiday season. The Admins discuss some of the wonderful gits that are new from Google and other companies. Listen as we talk about Clever, Google Home, Google Wifi, Phillips Hue and Wemo.

Want to save a lot of money and have a good laugh with us? Check out this show. Seriously, it was a fun one -- and there are a lot of amazing deals. We chat about our experience with the Nest Thermostat (which is on sale), and the Nest Protect (which is also on sale) and how Phillips Hue smart lightbulbs compare to LIFX smart bulbs. We dream about fancy 55" 4K TV's that are on sale (yet we still can't afford). Give us a listen, you'll dig it! Also, happy Thanksgiving!!! :)

Tro yma ar yr Haclediad – mae’r Iest test nôl! Siarad am bylbs brilliant Phillips Hue. ‘Da ni hefyd nôl gyda’r home helpers digidol, Alexa o Amazon tro yma, plygwn ni’n clustiau at BBC Radio Cymru Mwy ac o bosib anfon y Cymro cyntaf i’r blaned goch gyda SpaceX. Hefyd, rhestri hirfaith o stwff gwych i wrando a gwylio arno, ond dim amser extra i wneud hynny – joiwch! The post Haclediad 52: Oi! Chdi! Teclyn! appeared first on Hacio'r Iaith » Ffrwd Podlediad.

Nothing makes your home feel more like the house of the future than smart lighting. We discuss all the ways connected bulbs and switches can add convenience, security, and efficiency to your home.

Alex and James figure out why their sleep has been sucking lately, and what tech can be used to fix it. Also, is it possible to get laid while wearing orange safety goggles?

Transferring large files (Dropbox vs WeTransfer), saving YouTube videos (ClipGrap, YTD Video Downloader, SaveFrom.net, ClipConverter.cc, KeepVid.com), Profiles in IT (Alan Emtage, creator of first Internet search engine, Archie), Li-Fi 100 times faster than Wi-Fi (modulated LED lights use visible spectrum), App of the Week (SpeakEmoji, pure Emoji speak), 2016 Gift Guide for Geeks (Chromecast, Roku, and Apple TV Streaming Media; Phillips HUE and WeMo Smart LED Lightbulbs; Pebble Smart Watch, Canon CP910 Photo Printer, Amazon Fire Tablet, Lenses for Smart Phones and more). This show originally aired on Saturday, December 19, 2015, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Transferring large files (Dropbox vs WeTransfer), saving YouTube videos (ClipGrap, YTD Video Downloader, SaveFrom.net, ClipConverter.cc, KeepVid.com), Profiles in IT (Alan Emtage, creator of first Internet search engine, Archie), Li-Fi 100 times faster than Wi-Fi (modulated LED lights use visible spectrum), App of the Week (SpeakEmoji, pure Emoji speak), 2016 Gift Guide for Geeks (Chromecast, Roku, and Apple TV Streaming Media; Phillips HUE and WeMo Smart LED Lightbulbs; Pebble Smart Watch, Canon CP910 Photo Printer, Amazon Fire Tablet, Lenses for Smart Phones and more). This show originally aired on Saturday, December 19, 2015, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Hoy en Data te presentamos la nueva LapTop ATIV Book 9 PRO de Samsung Mexico​, le hicimos Unboxing a los nuevos focos Phillips HUE compatibles con HomeKit de Apple Inc.​ un reportaje sobre Internet de las cosas (Internet of Things)​y te recomendamos una excelente APP para enviar archivos a cualquier dispositivo.

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Home Tech Tips brought to you by the Average Guy Network, part of http://thegeeksnetwork.com/ community. Support the Average Guy Tech Scholarship Fund: https://www.patreon.com/theaverageguy or in Canada you can use https://www.patreon.com/theaverageguy WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? We now have Video Large / Small and Video iTunes options at http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live or call in your questions or comments to be played on the show at (402) 478-8450 Find the full show notes and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/htt023 Get the full Home Gadget Geeks Podcast at https://theaverageguy.tv/2015/09/05/phillips-hue-and-hue-lux-lighting-systems-with-the-amazon-echo-ring-com-hgg229/ Listen Mobile:   Catch all the subscription links

Wi-Fi configuration tricks, changing cellular carriers (CDMA vs GSM phones), using email merge (Constant Contact vs MS Office with Outlook), MyPiDay.com (your personal pi day finder), hard drive replacement with Windows, LED home lighting (Phillips Hue, GE, ChiChin, disco app for parties), Profiles in IT (Parisa Tabriz, Google Security Princess), Organization of the Week (Women in IT, mentorship and support), Website of the Week (InfoSecRocks, learn about information security), lifeguard drone (a great application), and PayPal deep learning (used to identify fraudenlent patterns). This show originally aired on Saturday, March 28, 2015, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Wi-Fi configuration tricks, changing cellular carriers (CDMA vs GSM phones), using email merge (Constant Contact vs MS Office with Outlook), MyPiDay.com (your personal pi day finder), hard drive replacement with Windows, LED home lighting (Phillips Hue, GE, ChiChin, disco app for parties), Profiles in IT (Parisa Tabriz, Google Security Princess), Organization of the Week (Women in IT, mentorship and support), Website of the Week (InfoSecRocks, learn about information security), lifeguard drone (a great application), and PayPal deep learning (used to identify fraudenlent patterns). This show originally aired on Saturday, March 28, 2015, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

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