Select Walmart Stores: Google Nest Hub Gen 2 Smart Home Display + Wiz Smart Light Bulb
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Walmart has Google Nest Hub Smart Home Display (Gen 2, Charcoal or Chalk) + Wiz Smart Wi-Fi Connected LED Light Bulb on sale for $39. Shipping is free, otherwise select free store pickup where available.
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Model: Google Nest Hub (Gen 2) Smart Home Display - Wiz Smart Wi-Fi Connected LED Light Bulb - Charcoal
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They're excellent to use as photo frames and light audio playback
Someone mentioned in the other thread that they're usable as Cast screens - so you can send videos to it to watch like a small TV. That made me go from "do I need it" to instabuy. Set it up in the kitchen and it's awesome to use in that way for videos to pass the time or cooking tutorials, etc.
Nest hub is very slow even compared to first gen lenovo google home like almost 5 years Ago now! Good for intro but not good for heavy camera use
Looks like it uses a chipset from Amlogic -similar- to those found in TV boxes. So there is hardware offload for decoding certain formats for media (pictures/videos) but I presume the ARM cores (main CPU cores) are likely the bottleneck for processes that can't be hardware accelerated.
Note the Google dongle and similarly Walmart TV dongle also uses Amlogic chipsets, which implies that Google has a strong partnership with Amlogic to incorporate their SoCs into Google devices.
IMO Google Home is terrible as a home automation platform. I basically only use it for voice commands. I have also noticed that Google Assistant has gotten significantly worse since I started using it several years ago, which makes me think they aren't investing in improving it.
You're right, they're been lagging behind for a long time. They recently introduced a beta app and I think with the promises that Matter claims to bring, they may be positioning themselves to become the defacto dashboard service provider. ATM, Home Assistant provides a paid service that lets you integrate it with Google Home right now, and that's without the new APIs. My hope is that they remain open and improve since it'll be a much contested space with the likes of Hubitat, Home Assistant, HomeKit and whatever Matter ushers in.
You think Alexa is the standard for home automation? Yikes...
That was my shot from the hip response. Again, if you think Alexa sucks, then you're again pretty out of it. Echo's have lots of desireable features like default speakers, lights and so on with built in proximity sensors in their newer gen Dots. To be able to walk into a room and say, turn on lights and the right lights turn on, or just walk into a room and have that happen with little effort is great. Nothing at the moment is as easy to configure as the dots.
Someone mentioned in the other thread that they're usable as Cast screens - so you can send videos to it to watch like a small TV. That made me go from "do I need it" to instabuy. Set it up in the kitchen and it's awesome to use in that way for videos to pass the time or cooking tutorials, etc.
That's awesome, I wasn't even aware of this. Thank you!
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Someone mentioned in the other thread that they're usable as Cast screens - so you can send videos to it to watch like a small TV. That made me go from "do I need it" to instabuy. Set it up in the kitchen and it's awesome to use in that way for videos to pass the time or cooking tutorials, etc.
It's not just as a cast screen - you can add apps. I watch youtubeTV on our kitchen one every day. You can add other video apps too.
It's not just as a cast screen - you can add apps. I watch youtubeTV on our kitchen one every day. You can add other video apps too.
Huh - I didn't realize this even after setting up (granted it's only been half a day). Thanks for letting me know! I've got to look into how to do it, but in the meantime I decided to set up a family slideshow and it's been really quite nice being able to look over and see photos like that. This thing keeps getting better. I decided to order a second one just because and seemingly got the last one in my area. Weird that the different colors are only on the back of the device and the base while the front screen bezel is always white :/?.
IMO Google Home is terrible as a home automation platform. I basically only use it for voice commands. I have also noticed that Google Assistant has gotten significantly worse since I started using it several years ago, which makes me think they aren't investing in improving it.
I'll agree that Google Home app is terrible, but Alexa doesn't recognize spoken colors (ie, "set my lamp to green") unless the device is connected through a skill that supports it (mine are exposed through Home Assistant). I primarily use Alexa devices but they each have their uses.
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Someone mentioned in the other thread that they're usable as Cast screens - so you can send videos to it to watch like a small TV. That made me go from "do I need it" to instabuy. Set it up in the kitchen and it's awesome to use in that way for videos to pass the time or cooking tutorials, etc.
Looks like it uses a chipset from Amlogic -similar- to those found in TV boxes. So there is hardware offload for decoding certain formats for media (pictures/videos) but I presume the ARM cores (main CPU cores) are likely the bottleneck for processes that can't be hardware accelerated.
Note the Google dongle and similarly Walmart TV dongle also uses Amlogic chipsets, which implies that Google has a strong partnership with Amlogic to incorporate their SoCs into Google devices.
You think Alexa is the standard for home automation? Yikes...
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