Switching Back to Alexa - Every new Echo Product - Smart Home Tour!

Hi Brandon, really enjoyed the video, well present with just enough info on the better known products and slightly more on the more one of purchase product brands such as the vacuums etc.

Very nice setup. I bought my first smart speaker echo show 8 for my kitchen for shopping list and its a real bummer google screw the shopping list up with there stuff. What i well can recommend for you is home assistant not to replace amazon but to run with it the automation is soooo much better you can hook all your stuff up even the inverter and run automation from that. There zones are also insane. The best thing for me to run home assistant aswell if something happens to the network everything still works bc everything runs local

Pacing was excellent! Can we see a full home theater tour soon? I'd love to learn more about your Control4 setup, Sony projector, etc.

What made you decide to switch back to the Amazon Ecosystem?

Well this is awkward, I just found this from your “switched to google” video after searching specifically for “switch to Alexa” and this video didn’t even show in my search. Also, echo show 8 is not on gen3, yet. However, the show 5 is Gen 3. I wonder why you switched back to ecobee after going to nest? I DESPISE the new ecobee UI since literally anything you try to do requires minimum 2-3 extra taps & gestures, the old UI was just walk up to it and slide to the temperature you wanted (granted they could have adjusted the sensitivity better but otherwise it was nearly perfect). Is it because the room sensors detect occupancy where googles do not?

Hello, philips hue has now released official matter update'. Any video coming about it? I have high hopes about it, as regards the alexa limitation with one hue bridge. Will matter solve this ? Muliple hue bridges is now possible with alexa with matter update ? Thx

I started out with Amazon alexa for my smart home i never left i love my alexa devices and smart home

Are those shades in the living room Lutron shades? I have Lutron light switches but I can't get the wife to sign off on the Lutron shades. Any other smart shades you recommend?

The light switch do they have the common wire needed, if not which one are you using

I am just amazed at the dependence ever more on 'smart homes' in the USA. I wonder what you would do with an electrical and internet fail. Nobody would know or be able to manually deal with the outages? Greetings from Switzerland. Entertaining and informative video...thank you.

Sweet stuff. I had never seen that two-group pico remote.

I misspoke in a couple places, the Reolink is a dual lens camera, the shots the editor used are from two different cameras, in my office those are elgato key lights & my wife pointed out I pronounce Bartisan wrong. Lmk what you think of the pacing, I’m trying to improve these tours and appreciate your feedback. Big collaboration tour coming next week!! Link to all products I am currently using in the description if you’re interested.

Are using a hub? If so which one

Prior to mid 2020 amazon could do no wrong. Since then they have done most things wrong. If I were to start over I would probable opt for Homekit. Still mulling over going to Hubitat. Problem is I'm neck deep in echo stuff. Your biggest mistage here (and I'm guilty too) is buying any show device. They never matured to their potential and have been twisted into an advertising billboard for skills, products and paid videos. I have kept the show8 in my kitchen only for grocery lists, recipes, and the ring doorbell but looking to switch to the Eufy doorbell. I replaced my other shows with google hubs. If you have zigbee stuff you still will need the echo hub. If you want complete simplicity you still need the echos. But there is no longer a perfect smart home ecosystem among the big 3. I use all 3 to make it all work and still keep my sanity. Last note, you pointed out that whole house music is important. You should look into the echo link. With a wired connection you can play any local media and cast to any/all your echos.

5:50 lol

0:33 not sure what you are talking about. The gen 3 show 8 was just released in sept of 2023, 2 months after this video and you can't even get it yet. Get 2 was released in 2021, 2 years before this video. So how is the either a new, or a 3rd gen show 8? It's either a 2 year old get 2, or you are from the future.

Hi, your videos are pretty neat but I wish you could get something better to record them, it's a bit surprising that the video quality feels off when you have so much cool technology around you,

PLEASE mute the word Alexa in your videos…

I couldn't watch your video because you don't mute the wake words for Siri or Alexa.

Please stop saying "Alexa" in your videos. My alexa keeps trying to run your commands at my house.