The Smart Home Show

Guest: Unikey's Phil Dumas. Today Unikey announced a $10 million series A funding round. I caught up with the company's CEO Phil Dumas to talk about Unikey's business, the investors and the state of the smart lock market. You can find out more at www.unikey.com You can find more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com via Knit

Zigbee-Thread Part 2: A talk with Tobin Richardson, President of Zigbee Alliance & Chris Boross, President of Thread Group. Mike talks to Tobin and Chris about why they decided to work together and what it means for each group. The sponsor for today's episode is Control4. Control4's Smarter Living Livestream (and video archive) event that demonstrates life in the smart home will be on April 22 at 7 EST. You can register and find the video after at: ctrl4.co/livesmart You can find more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Follow Mike on Twitter to tell him thoughts, ask questions or suggest guests for the Smart Home Show: www.twitter.com/michaelwolf via Knit

Guest: GreenPeak CEO Cees Links GreenPeak is one of the leading providers of Zigbee chips, so I caught up with CEO Cees Links to talk about what the Zigbee/Thread agreement means. Cees also breaks down where most of the Zigbee systems are being deployed today. The sponsor for today's episode is Control4. Control4's Smarter Living Livestream (and video archive) event that demonstrates life in the smart home will be on April 22 at 7 EST. You can register and find the video after at: http://ctrl4.co/livesmart You can find more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Follow Mike on Twitter to tell him thoughts, ask questions or suggest guests for the Smart Home Show: www.twitter.com/michaelwolf via Knit

Guest: CEO/Founder of smart kitchen startup Orange Chef, Santiago Merea. In this episode Mike and Santiago talk about the Orange Chef's new smart kitchen system, the Countertop. We also talk about this concept of connecting your kitchen to the smart home and Internet of Things. You can find out more about the Orange Chef at www.orangechef.com You can find more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Send questions and feedback to Mike on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf via Knit

This is the Smart Home Show weekly update for week of April 7, 2014. Stories covered: -Amazon's Home Services -The Dash Button -Google's Home Service rumors -Zigbee & Thread Get Together -Orange Chef's Countertop As always, you can find more Smart Home Show at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Follow host Michael Wolf on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf via Knit

In this episode, Mike talks to the CEO of iDevices about his HomeKit efforts. And bonus: Mike answers a couple listener emails. You can find out more about iDevices at: http://idevicesinc.com/ For more Smart Home Shows, go to: www.thesmarthomeshow.com Follow Mike on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf for his daily posts/thoughts on smart home/IoT. via Knit

Guest: Martin Plaehn, CEO of Control4 Mike is happy to welcome Martin Plaehn, the CEO of Control4. Control4 is an interesting company because it's the only pure-play smart home company that is also publicly traded company. We talk to Martin about the company's business, the future, HomeKit, DIY smart home and more. You can find out more about Control4 at www.control4.com Find more smart home shows and where to subscribe at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Follow Mike on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf for day to day musings on the smart home and tech. via Knit

Guest: Cory Sorice, VP of Marketing, Connected Products for Chamberlain. What is the #1 reason people stress they forgot to do when they left home? If it isn't closing the garage door, I'd be surprised. So it's no wonder Chamberlain - a garage door powerhouse - got on the smart home trend early. In this podcast I talk to Cory Sorice, who heads up marketing for Chamberlain's connected products. You can find out more about Chamberlain's smart garage door efforts here: http://www.chamberlain.com/smartphone-control-products You can find more Smart Home Shows here: www.thesmarthomeshow.com via Knit

Guest: Mark Spates, Head of Smart Home Platforms for Logitech. In this podcast, Mike catches up with Mark Spates to talk about the role of the remote control in the smart home. Logitech has been actively looking to make its popular Harmony universal remote line a key control interface for the smart home, so we talk to him about this and much more. You can find out more about Logitech at www.logitech.com Find more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Follow Mike on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf via Knit

This is the smart home weekly news update for the week ending February 17, 2015 (Leonard Nimoy Day). In this podcast, Mike talks about: -The new Bluetooth Mesh working group -ADT's new ad campaign -Nest Protect's very bad week or two -Ways HomeKit could fail -Neo smart jar -Hive smart home system -A connected toilet water device For more smart home shows, go to www.thesmarthomeshow.com Follow Mike on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf via Knit