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

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