Episode 162 - All Things Google

-Google Home Hubhttps://store.google.com/us/product/google_nest_hub?hl=en-US-Nest Hub Maxhttps://store.google.com/us/product/google_nest_hub_max?hl=en-US-New Branding Google Nest-New Device Google Nest Hub Max-Added Built in Nest Cam-Gesture Recognition-Bigger display-Person recognition-Better Speakers - Sub built in-$229-State of where things are at with Google Assistant in the Smart Home Space today-Playing catchup to Amazon but investing heavily and moving fast-Heavy investment in CES-More integrations with more vendors-How many devices in Adam's home are integrated-What's missing?-No ring - feels glaring https://www.techhive.com/article/3332143/rings-founder-says-hes-open-to-working-with-google-assistant.html-No Moen (Announced) / No Delta Faucet support, either-No TiVo-No Rachio-Schlage - has integration but can't run simultaneously with HomeKit -Very quick response time-Voice understanding is good-Wake word-Robotic John Legend -State reporting requirement-Feels like moving towards something bigger-Model for creating new types of devices-Have worked with all 3 major ecosystems now in adding new device types-Apple has device types they need to create and release-Amazon has new model for this called Alexa Primitives https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/acf7689b-f118-469e-b452-0c4da8d3e61a/new-alexa-smart-home-developer-tools-enable-seamless-voice-control-of-any-device-and-any-feature-Great talk about this at ReInvent last year https://youtu.be/KQuMrfePbDQ-Google has an almost Lego like approach to this, where they have created all the pieces and you can put them together in a way to represent your device-Much more extensible -Requires less time and work from them via Knit