#google-home

Doorbell camera on the Google Home Hub display

“Seven local systems — camera, person detection, hub, displays, voice, phones, NAS — all triggered by one button press, none of them phoning a vendor cloud. That's the smart-home magic that justifies all the YAML.”

Google Home — two voice assistants, one house

“Two voice assistants in one house means two wake words, two skill ecosystems, two integration accounts. The 'unified smart home' was supposed to solve this. It made it worse.”