Gadgetory

hey I'm right Chris here and see that's appliance testing floor to show you the neck sia bridge from nexia home intelligence the neck sia bridge is like the mothership for home automation in your house any product or device that's compatible with it can be automated through the next app or website basically the nexia bridge is like a router if you take a look at it here it's got two ports one for the power cable and one for the ethernet cable so right now this white cable is connecting us to the router here our CNET office and with that we're able to connect our appliances to it using different devices and automate them from the nexia app and website so if i pull up the next the app here on my phone i can use it just to turn this lamp on I can dim it I can make it nice and soft I can control it however I want it's really easy to do and it's very quick to respond as well as so we like this app quite a bit now of course I can't just in the lamp using the bridge itself I have to plug the lamp into a dimmer module that's nexia compatible so if you don't have any nexia compatible devices you're gonna need to buy those separately the good news here though is that there are over 200 nexia compatible devices available for purchase so you've got a lot of options another key strengths of the nexia bridge is its range it uses the z-wave wireless network and that's a network designed exclusively for home automation that gives it a range of about 60 feet to 100 feet so we wanted to test that out we built the door right in the middle of our test floor right back there right now it's about 90 feet away it's got a z-wave touchscreen deadbolt built right into it so we can control it from the neck seal so I've pulled my app now and if I press the unlock button right here the door opens even from 90 feet away one of the next best selling points is its website once you log in you'll have access to a whole array of features that are designed to give you complete control over your home automation needs you've got this list of recent events which are all the things you triggered all the lights going on and doors opening and closing you also have this automation Center and this is where you can create different automation setups where if the door opens the light comes on if you've used IFFT before if this than that it's a lot like that if this thing happens then that thing happens unfortunately you can't create these automated setups on the app it has to be on the website and that's one of my big critiques here is that the app to be a little more powerful next you charge is nine dollars a month to use their services if you're looking to automate only one light or one appliance probably not worth it to spend nine dollars a month so there's a neck seal right for you well if you want to get into home automation and you feel a little overwhelmed it's a really good option at 59.99 it makes it very easy and accessible to automate a lot of different things at once all from one app thanks for watching I'm right chris messina