The Smart Home Show

Ever wish you could see who's at your front door on your phone, either at work or from the couch? You might want to get a smart doorbell like Skybell. On this podcast, we talk to Skybell cofounder Andrew Thomas about the product's evolution, Skybell 2.0, the call he got one day from Apple and much more. You can find out more about Skybell at www.skybell.com You can listen to more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Email us at thesmarthomeshow@gmail.com via Knit

This week Mike talks with Securifi's Ram Malasani about the company's new Almond+ home automation enabled router. The home router was in need of a reboot. Ram and Securifi realized by adding a touch screen they could make a router that was really easy to use and maybe help rejuvenate a tired product category. Seven thousand reviews on Amazon later they're now getting into home automation with the Almond+. You can find out more about Securifi and the Almond router at www.securifi.com You can listen to more Smart Home Shows and find out where to subscribe by going to www.thesmarthomeshow.com Follow Mike on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf via Knit

After having a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign in 2012 for their Wi-Fi smart lock, Lockitron struggled to get the product to work well with Wi-Fi. They eventually got products out to 10 thousand backers, but decided late last year to go back to the drawing board and create an entirely new smart lock in the Bolt. In this podcast, Lockitron CEO Cameron Robertson tells the story of the how they came to the decision to create a new product, the challenges the company faced over the past few years and what the plan is going forward. You can read about Lockitron at www.lockitron.com You can find more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Follow Mike on Twitter to suggest guests, tell him whether you like this theme music or just learn about smart home news before everyone else. www.twitter.com/michaelwolf via Knit

This Smart Home Show features Dave McCall of the Open Interconnect Consortium, a group of companies developing a framework and a standard for better device interconnectivity. You can find out more about OIC at: http://openinterconnect.org/ You can find more Smart Home Shows at: http://www.technology.fm/thesmarthomeshow/ Find Mike on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf via Knit

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

Guest: Ben Harris, CEO of Drop, the connected scale maker. We talk about the smart kitchen on this show with Ben Harris. You can find out more about Drop at www.getdrop.co Find the Smart Home Show at: http://www.technology.fm/thesmarthomeshow/ Follow Mike on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf via Knit

The full Smart Home review from CES 2015. Sure it's a week after CES, but if you want a guide to most everything that happened at CES for smart home, this is the podcast to listen to. You can also get a free 32 page report on the show at: http://nextmarket.co/products/ces2015 Subscribe to the written version at www.smarthomeweekly.net Check out the podcast and where to subscribe at http://www.technology.fm/thesmarthomeshow/ via Knit

Mike bravely battles a cold to bring you the biggest stories from 2014 in smart home just before he gets ready to fly to Vegas for CES 2015. Subscribe to future smart home shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com and read our newsletter at www.smarthomeweekly.net Follow Mike on Twitter to keep track of what he publishes for CES: www.twitter.com/michaelwolf via Knit

This is the only smart home gift buying guide you'll need. Sure, you can find lots of lists on the Internet, but in this podcast Mike gives you a way to buy a smart home gift for anyone in your life, no matter if they're a technophile or complete luddite. You can find links to the products I talk about in this podcast at: http://www.technology.fm/thesmarthomeshow/smarthomegiftguide You can also find where to subscribe to the Smart Home Show at http://www.technology.fm/thesmarthomeshow/ via Knit

In this podcast, we talk with Sunnovations Matt Carlson about their new smart hot water heater device, Aquanta. We also announce the winner of our latest giveaway! You can find out more about Aquanta at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/651800236/aquanta-cool-technology-for-hot-water You can find the Smart Home Show at www.thesmarthomeshow.com via Knit