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When we talk about the smart home, we often talk about grand visions of perfectly automated everything. You know the ones: you wake up perfectly rested thanks to some bedside light thing, and as you stretch luxuriously toward the ceiling, a sensor notices and turns on the coffee pot, starts steaming the sauna, and starts playing a curated playlist of all your favorite songs. It sounds nice! It is… mostly not how the smart home actually works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But you know what does work, and is pretty smart? Swapping out the lock on your front door for something that lets you enter with a code or a fingerprint, or even just knows when you\u2019re nearby and opens right up. In recent months, we\u2019ve seen a slew of smart locks, along with some new video doorbells, that make a smart front door seem like a pretty good idea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
On this episode of The Vergecast<\/em><\/a>, The Verge<\/em>\u2019s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy<\/a> takes us on her recent adventures in smart home gadgets. She explains why door locks<\/a> are so cool right now, why wireless power<\/a> might make them even cooler, and why we needed yet another protocol to make it all work. Speaking of protocols, there\u2019s been some Thread news<\/a> this summer, so we talk about that. We also catch up on the state of Matter, and whether Apple and Google\u2019s new software updates might make a difference in your house.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n