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what's going on guys the drafters consumer and it's time for another installment of the best smart home tech now I know a lot of you guys are off to college and you're probably looking for some nice cool tech to add to your dorm room so I'm going to show you guys some of the cool stuff that I recently added to my studio and at first we've got the UV genie you can think of this as a better and less expensive option to the Amazon echo dot and if you guys know me you know I love to use the Amazon echo to control all the stuff in my studio and my apartment so huge shout-out to you for not only sponsoring today's video but putting this guy on my radar and the genie can do just about anything the Amazon echo dot can do because it has alexa built into it so you can ask it random things like what's the weather or something crazy like something about the Superbowl in 2015 whatever you want it can do it as well so just like any of the echo products all you have to do is say and you'll be able to give it whatever commands you want now what makes the genie better than the echo dot besides it's $35 price tag compared to 50 is the fact that it has improved speakers now if you have an echo dot you'll know that the speaker game is kind of weak so you if you decided to go ahead and improve that so you can still have that small and discreet form factor without sacrificing sound and from what I've been told you fees gonna be going on sale here and there and there's actually a sale going on right now where you can pick up the genie for less than 30 bucks if you still connect this to any smart home device at the echo dot can but what I like about you feet is that they're not only making this - making other cool smart home tech with the same mindset of inexpensive stuff with good quality and I was lucky enough to get my hands on some of this stuff a bit early so I got to try out the UV Robo vac which is a robot vacuum you can set cleaning schedules or even tell Alexa ask robo vac to start cleaning or even tell robo vac to go home and it'll do all of those things automatically and I'm not even gonna lie to you guys I can watch that thing finding its way back home all day and if you're into smart lighting UV offers some inexpensive options as well that of course work with Amazon Alexa I'll have all link down below in the description but if you just want to start your smart home game and you don't want to break the bank these are definitely worth the look and if you guys are interested in a chance of winning some free yuffie gear i'm gonna have a link down below in the description for you guys to check out an awesome giveaway and up next we've got the august smart lock now I am super late when it comes to this one but I've been adding a little bit more security to the studio and I am glad I picked this up and this is a smart lock that you can control using your phone and all you have to do is use the app to lock or unlock your door or you can do what I do and set it to auto lock and with this it'll automatically lock once it detects that you've left home or if you've left it unlocked for a set amount of time but it'll also unlock once it detects that you've gotten home which could be pretty nice if it's your only lock so that you don't have to fumble around looking for your keys if you're carrying something and this is great if you're the type of person who tends to worry about whether or not you lock the door you can kind of just jump into the app and see the status of your lock and lock it from there and don't worry you can still use your regular key and there's no sign of it being a smart lock from the outside so you don't have to do much and even getting it installed took me about maybe 15 minutes super simple very easy to install and I love the functionality that you get from it and not to mention this thing works with Alexa so you can give it voice commands to make sure it's locked but with that you kind of need this add-on piece that gives it Wi-Fi capabilities that cost about 70 bucks which is a little bit pricey for that functionality but if you do happen to have an iPhone it does work with home kit so you can just grab your phone and do something like this hey Siri unlock the front door boom there you go so you still kind of have access to voice commands even if you don't get that additional Wi-Fi piece so yeah this lock is great it's automatic has an app uses voice commands and you can still use it manually on both sides in case your phone dies or you forgot it somewhere you still have access to your house in all the typical ways so this is definitely a nice piece of smart home tech but I'm glad I finally got in - and last but not least we've got the Harmony Home Hub now my longtime subscribers know I've always been an advocate of having the Xbox one and we connect into a home entertainment system because of the voice controls that allowed your gv2 have but now the harmony kind of switches that up for me and that's because this also works with Amazon Alexa there's kind of a theme here guys but yeah this works with Amazon Alexa you can tell it to turn on the TV pause something even turn up the volume all the kind of things that you would do with your Xbox one and the Kinect with Alexa and the harmony hub but something I also like is the fact that you have the Harmony home app which allows you to still use your TV remote right on your phone so instead of having to look around for a TV remote that always seems to go missing you have a fully functional remote right on your phone which is awesome even if it's a completely different app you can have an iPhone and a Samsung TV and still have all the functionality there which I think just saves a lot of time if you don't want to look for the remote awesome stuff guys I personally am a believer in this as a tech reviewer and someone who's always giving product recommendations to friends and family this kind of switches things up for me if you're not a big gamer or you don't have a big budget for it in Xbox one and Kinect I can now recommend a different combo with the Harmony Home Hub and an Alexa enabled device which will all be much cheaper than an Xbox and Kinect but that about wraps it up for this video guys as you can see there are a lot of Alexa enabled products here I think Alexa controlling the smart home voice controls all that stuff is the way to go but that's about it hopefully you enjoyed the video if you did be the cool guy or girl that gives this video a thumbs up and I'll catch you guys in the next one till then it's your average consumer peace