Apple introduces some improvements to HomeKit at this year’s developer conference; Lutron announces a brilliant, new retrofit lighting controller; and Eaton Lighting’s Bryant Bilal joins us to talk about their residential smart lighting line, Halo Home.

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• Security features come to routers and cameras
• Home app updates in iOS 13
• Lutron’s Aurora Dimmer Solves the Smart Bulb/Wall Switch Problem
• Hubitat releases iOS/Android apps
• New Ecobee & SmartSensors Detailed
• Tado releases V3+ AC control
• Wemo 3-way Light Switch Now Available
• Find out more about Halo Home
• Hear more about the iOS 13 HomeKit updates on The Smart Home Show

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Google backpedals after abruptly announcing the shutdown of its Works with Nest program, Ring Smart Lighting products arrive, and the Google Assistant finally lands on Sonos devices. Orro founder and CEO Colin Billings joins us to discuss all this news plus his thoughts on how Orro plans to fill some gaps in the consumer smart lighting space.

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• Google Introduces Nest Hub Max
• “Works with Nest” shutting down August 31, 2019 because “privacy”
• Google responds and backpedals (a bit)“
• Ring Security Smart Lighting released on the 15th
• Amazon turns your Echos into home guardians
• Blink replaces XT with XT2; still no doorbell
• With the Google Assistant, your Sonos system gets even smarter
• Find out more about Orro

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There’s good news and there’s bad news. Several new devices are offering HomeKit support while Stringify users scramble for alternative automation solutions. Journalist Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins us to catch up on what is arguably a mixed bag of smart home updates.

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• Stringify Surprises No One by Announcing Imminent Shutdown
• Yonomi is rolling out the welcome wagon
• August halts shipping of View doorbell camera, offers customers refunds
• Wyze Sense Smart Home Kit Now Shipping
• Amazon Key delivery now live in select cities
• Lutron fan control is now available with HomeKit support
• Ring Alarm is now a Smart Home Hub sensors work with Alexa
• Ring update adds Linked Devices
• Ring Security Lighting delayed until May 15
• IKEA’s smart blinds delayed until later this year
• Trådfri Outlets are now fully supported within HomeKit
• Fibaro devices are now compatible with SmartThings
• Third-party Insteon Device Handlers for SmartThings

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We’re sharing a panel Richard moderated at the last Smart Kitchen Summit about commerce in the kitchen. How do you sell stuff to consumers in their own homes without it feeling annoying? And we have a winner for our ultimate smart home kit!

The panelists were Iri Zohar of Freshub, Benton Richardson, of Amazon Dash, and Shawn Stover of GE Appliances. The panel was recorded at The Smart Kitchen Summit on October 9, 2018.

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• Freshub
• Amazon Dash
• GE Appliances
• The Smart Kitchen Summit
• DIY Smart Home Security with Apple HomeKit

• Are you a Game of Thrones fan? Check out Richard’s other show, Let’s Talk About Thrones

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Lowe’s Iris is shutting down in just a few days. How is Lowe’s handling the ramp-down process, and where do you go now? Long time friend of the DMZ and Iris user Tony Raynor joins us to discuss what he learned from his experience and shares his thought process in moving to a new platform…or two.

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• Lowes Iris is shutting down
• Living with Iris forum
• Bathroom repair tutor
• No, Logitech is not bricking your Harmony Home Hub
• Win the ultimate Insteon smart home kit!
• Follow Tony on Twitter

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It’s been a while since we’ve checked in on smart home news, so we have some catching up to do. Richard covers a few news stories and updates, and Jianhui He from LEDVANCE joins the show to talk about some recent updates to the SMART+ product line.

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When we were at CES, we saw lots of cool, new products. This year was again more evolutionary than revolutionary, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t interesting!

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It’s a new year, and we’re ready for CES…so what’s that all mean? It’s time to get together again with our friends from CNET. Andrew Gebhart joins us this time to review last year’s show and speculate about what this year will bring. Plus, we have some old news to catch up on. And robots! Andrew loves him some robots!

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Each Winter, Richard gets to sit around the fire with some tech friends and reflect back on the year in smarthome technology. This is our annual Technology.FM fireside chat, moderated by Seth Johnson…with Jason Griffing, Mike Wolf, and this year joined by Rose Thibodeaux. And this is the DMZ’s obsessively edited cut with 25 minutes of vocables and dead space left on the cutting room floor.

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Richard looks back at last month’s Smart Kitchen Summit, TiVo starts rolling out some smart home features to customers, and Josh Pollard joins us to share his thoughts on some of Google’s new Home product, and he updates us on what’s going on these days in his smart home.

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