Sentences with phrase «tvs as a smart home hub»

«If the majority of consumers were to utilize TVs as a smart home hub, that would be a key breakthrough,» says Kraus.

Once you've gone through a rather cumbersome and clumsy setup process, involving an iOS device and a plethora of settings menus, you can use your Apple TV as a smart home hub.

Not exact matches

With more and more televisions interacting with the smart home, the TV could become more than just the entertainment centerpiece of the home, transforming into the control hub as well.

Beyond just serving up the usual streaming apps, the Shield TV can act as an over-the-air DVR, Plex server, or smart home hub, and it's not a terrible gaming machine to boot.

Those small details — and Apple TV 4K's ability to perform as a HomeKit - based smart home hub, a feature this review will not focus on — don't add up to a better value, but they do make for a superior streaming box if you're willing to pay a stiff premium.

Before the HomePod, the other hub options were either an Apple TV or an iPad, neither of which are as convenient to have plugged in throughout a home to access smart devices that are out of range.

(The Apple TV doubles as a hub to control HomeKit - compatible smart home devices.)

When away, Sylvania bulbs sync with a connected Apple TV or iOS 10 - enabled iPad as a hub for the smart home so users can keep checking in on and controlling the lights from afar.

LG's ThinQ TVs also function as smart home hubs, offering access to other smart home products such as robotic vacuum cleaners, air conditioners, air purifiers, smart lights, smart speakers and many other connected devices.

The inclusion of ThinQ also means that each new OLED TV model can act as a smart home hub.

Apple TV also acts as a remote hub for HomeKit smart - home products, letting users control their locks, lights, and thermostat from outside the house.

With Deep ThinQ, LG's OLED TVs can pretty much act as a smart home hub.

And we also received SmartThings support, which gives the Shield TV the ability to work as a SmartThings hub for your smart home, and allows you to control different (previously paired) smart components of your home, like your thermostat or your lights.

Apple has been a bit ambivalent about its smart - home plans; while you can use both Apple TV and an iPad as a HomeKit hub, it hasn't marketed it with the same gusto as its other products.

Here's Apple's vision: You walk in through the door of your home, causing the blinds to automatically go down (because they've been set to close via GPS - based geofencing); your smart light bulbs dim; and your home theatre, powered by a 4th Generation Apple TV, which also acts as a hub that allows you to control HomeKit IoT devices remotely and on - the - go, turns on.

The other major part of Apple's new Home strategy stems from the 4th Generation Apple TV, which acts as a hub for HomeKit, and also allows the user to control their smart home via the Siri RemHome strategy stems from the 4th Generation Apple TV, which acts as a hub for HomeKit, and also allows the user to control their smart home via the Siri Remhome via the Siri Remote.

The $ 50 Elgato Eve Button syncs to your HomeKit devices through either your Apple TV or an Apple iPad acting as a hub for your smart home.

This small white dongle helps your Shield TV act as a smart home hub and parse commands related to other gadgets in your house.

HomeKit will make it easier to control the smart products within owners» homes, and the Apple TV will work as a sort of central hub to make communication between iOS devices and those smart products even easier.

Starting this summer, its new Series 7, 8, and 9 TVs will have the SmartThings hub built right in, which will enable you to control smart home devices, such as connected locks and lights, right from your TV.

Finally, LG says that its ThinQ TVs can function as «smart home hubs, offering access to other smart home products such as robotic vacuum cleaners, air conditioners, air purifiers, smart lights, smart speakers and many other devices that can connect to the TV via Wi - Fi or Bluetooth.»

Samsung aims to make its 2018 QLED TV as the central hub that controls all of the home's smart devices.

Apple had already positioned Apple TV as the hub for HomeKit, its smart home and Internet of Things platform, though that's more about ensuring perpetual connectivity between devices than direct control.