Home Depot Launches Smart Glass Doors That Turn From Clear to Opaque

[MacRumors]

Home Depot today launched new Smart Glass Door options that are able to transform from clear glass to opaque glass with a smartphone app, providing versatility for customers who want to be able to block light or people from seeing inside a home at select times of the day.

The Smart Glass Doors are made by Feather River Doors and are powered through Hubspace, a smart home app that integrates with several products sold by Home Depot, including light bulbs, ceiling fans, blinds, outlets, and locks.

The Smart Glass Doors can be controlled with an app that's available on the iPhone, but there is no HomeKit integration or support for Siri, which is a major downside for people who have a HomeKit setup. There is, however, support for Alexa and Google voice control.

When activated, the glass in the door is able to change from clear to privacy, which is a more opaque look. The glass is laminated for energy efficiency, and the door itself is made from fiberglass filled with high density polyurethane foam. It is unpainted, so it can be painted to match a home.

There are several models with different amounts of glass, with pricing that starts at $800. The doors will be available in select Home Depot stores starting on October 28.

Article Link: Home Depot Launches Smart Glass Doors That Turn From Clear to Opaque

 

[Dionte]

Why not just add matter so we can have HomeKit

 

[dominiongamma]

Why not just add matter so we can have HomeKit

HomeKit is a mess honestly, always connection issues and limitation by Apple

 

[Alpha Centauri]

This would be cool to have for windows mainly, with a power point nearby I guess?! Home Depot appears to be US and Canada only so not something coming soon to the EU.

 

[quietstormSD]

Maybe they'll get around to enabling contactless payments (Apple Pay) now.

 

[CalMin]

I'm going to get one of these for our guest bathroom.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Great, so in ten years you have to swap out your door because it lost support.

No thank you to more smart home junk.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Reminds me of Cyberpunk. Hack the bathroom stall glass to create a distraction!

 

[reden]

Great, so in ten years you have to swap out your door because it lost support.

No thank you to more smart home junk.

What a positive attitude towards life!

 

[icanhazmac]

Starting at $800 I wonder what the warranty is? If that fails when clear that would suck.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

What a positive attitude towards life!

Smart home stuff isn't necessary for life, or even very interesting.

I prefer to keep my fixed home appliances and parts (doors, etc.) as long as physically possible.

 

[no_idea]

Whatever happened to…just pulling the shades? 🤔

Going to be funny when the ppl that buy this freak out when it stops working in a few years.

“Honey I need a brand new door….the app no longer works!!!!”

 

[Alpha Centauri]

What a positive attitude towards life!

If anyone has lived the Siri demise of the OG HomePod, then they'll understand the pessimism.

 

[surferfb]

Whatever happened to…just pulling the shades? 🤔

Going to be funny when the ppl that buy this freak out when it stops working in a few years.

“Honey I need a brand new door….the app no longer works!!!!”

Clearly you've never had a toddler who enjoys pulling the shades up and then throwing a huge tantrum they can't reach the shades to pull it back down. followed by you pulling the shades down, the toddler sending the back up, and starting the tantrum over again. and again. and again. and again. 😂

 

[alexandr]

So many hilarious scenarios...

 

[oneMadRssn]

Things I definitely don't need in my life: worrying about charging the batteries on the door, figuring out whatever the heck "Hubspace Smart Home Platform" is.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

This is just plain cool.

 

[nocsi]

You can just buy a regular door and change out the glass with smart glass. Then you can do fancier stuff like tie an ups w/ solar to keep the door working.

Or spend $1000 on a turd door that someone’s going to end up having to reverse engineer

 

[surferfb]

Smart home stuff isn't necessary for life, or even very interesting.

I prefer to keep my fixed home appliances and parts (doors, etc.) as long as physically possible.

Agree 100% it is not necessary - but I find it definitely makes life a lot nicer. Even my non-techy wife loves our smart light switches and window shades (which she made fun of me for installing when we bought the house but now tells me she couldn't live without).

If this supported HomeKit I would 100% buy this for our front door - which is currently one big pane of glass.

 

[no_idea]

Clearly you've never had a toddler who enjoys pulling the shades up and then throwing a huge tantrum they can't reach the shades to pull it back down. followed by you pulling the shades down, the toddler sending the back up, and starting the tantrum over again. and again. and again. and again. 😂

Actually I have several times over. And the solution is simple…raise your kids well and teach them. Avoidance won’t help your kids grow into responsible adults

 

[surferfb]

Actually I have several times over. And the solution is simple…raise your kids well and teach them. Avoidance won’t help your kids grow into responsible adults

Example 756 of why I shouldn't bother to make jokes on the internet....

 

[Remy149]

HomeKit is a mess honestly, always connection issues and limitation by Apple

HomeKit has worked perfectly fine for me for years. If you are having connectivity issues I bet it’s your network/router

 

[GoosePoops]

ooof Hubspace is the worst. I bought a bunch of smart lightbulbs on clearance that require Hubspace to work and it truly is an awful piece of software. I resorted to using them as regular lightbulbs.

 

[cjsuk]

If every surface becomes programmable and connected we’re living in a dystopian hell. Nope!

It’s a door. It had two states. Open. Closed. Now it has four states. That’s not innovation, that’s bulls testicles.

 

[orbital~debris]

Surprising how long this technology has seemingly taken to be given the smart home treatment.
I recall seeing food display cabinets in cafés use this opaque/translucent glass technology around 20 years ago.