Apple has been a little slower to bring Siri into home automation. After all, she (he?) was the first voice assistant. Perhaps you like Siri more than Alexa or Google. That means that a command like “OK Google, I’m home” can have a Lutron lighting control scene turn on the lights to your preferences when you get back from work. Lutron’s Connect app can integrate with Google Assistant. Not as much of a fan of Amazon’s Alexa? Google’s Assistant is also increasing its presence in home automation. Or if you have a hot tub on your penthouse deck, it could shut that off too. If you like falling asleep to TV at night, you can say “Alexa, turn off the TV in 30 minutes” and everything will shut off, even if it’s your family room home theater. You may know that Alexa also makes a wonderful – if pricey – kitchen timer, but the timer is also handy for smarter chores. For example, saying “Alexa, we’re leaving” could activate your Crestron “away” mode, setting the security system, adjusting your climate control, lights and anything else to your preferences. When paired with Crestron’s Pyng hub, an assistant like Amazon’s Alexa can control practically anything your home can automate. Say you invest in a Crestron home automation system. SEE ALSO: The Ultimate Smart Home Holiday Shopping Guide Read on for some more ways to simplify your life with voice control. And unlike HAL 9000, voice assistants do your bidding without a mind of their own (for now at least). Voice recognition is accurate enough now that controlling your technology and information through just your voice is a reality. How about saying a command like “Goodnight” and having all your lights turn off, with perhaps just a few dimmed on for nighttime navigation? Or asking your entertainment system to start Netflix, and having everything turn on automatically and be ready to go for binge-watching your favorite show? While that one is interesting, perhaps more useful are the types of things we can do with voice commands for home automation. We can even ask Apple’s Siri such esoteric questions like “what flights are flying overhead right now?” You see people regularly talk into their smartphones on New York City streets, asking where their next meeting is or the location of the next Starbucks. Fast forward 50 years to 2018, and we have much of HAL’s intelligence in voice assistant services from Amazon, Apple, and Google. In 1968’s sci-fi classic “2001: A Space Odyssey,:” the HAL 9000 computer could talk and respond to humans. just don't let him control your garage door.Sounds are original, professional recordings.Voice Control of Your Life Is Now Mainstream Can you work them out? Phrases can be still be played without Apple Watch, just tap on HALs eye on the iPhone Terminal to play one of the phrases randomly and watch the Terminal Screens animate.Feel like you're on board the famous 'Discovery One' Spacecraft and have HALs Terminal display on your huge TV screen at home by AirPlaying from iPhone to your Apple TV then control the sounds from Apple Watch.For less than half the price of a coffee, you can now feel what it was like to be Dave, on board the Discovery One, with HAL as you closest companion. 'Open the POD Bay doors please, HAL'Turn your Apple Watch in to a HAL 9000 Sound Controller to play 30 iconic phrases from the all time classic movie, '2001: A Space Odyssey'.Control playback of phrases and animation of the HAL Terminal on your iPhone in the coolest possible way, straight from your wrist.Each phrase name is cleverly disguised as 3 letters to keep the buttons neat and to give the true terminal look used in the movie.
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