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Roku rolls out new smart home features with a surprise addition
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Roku rolls out new smart home features with a surprise addition

Official image of the Roku Ultra 2024

TL;DR

  • Roku previously announced smart home integration features, namely Camera Carousel, TV notifications, and Roku Smart Home Web View. These features are currently being deployed.
  • Roku is also introducing and rolling out a new Picture-in-Picture feature for camera feeds.

Roku TV and players are very popular in the market. They give users access to Roku OS as an alternative operating system if they don’t want to access Android TV or others. Roku recently announced new features like Camera Carousel, expanded notifications for Roku TVs, and Web View for accessing camera feeds from other web devices. Now, Roku is rolling out all these features and bringing Picture-in-Picture functionality for your camera feed.

Roku previously announced these features for the Roku Smart Home:

  • Camera carousel: Automatically cycle through each camera feed on your TV, using motion detection to show the camera where the action is happening.
Roku TV Camera Carousel
  • More notifications on the TV: You will now receive alerts on your TV (in addition to your phone) when your camera detects animals, packages and people. This feature requires a Camera subscription.
  • Roku Smart Home Web View: Users can now easily monitor all camera feeds from any browser by visiting cams.roku.com.
Roku Smart Home Web View

These Smart Home integration features were announced earlier this fall and are now rolling out to Roku users.

As part of its holiday update, Roku now also lets you pin your camera feeds to your Roku TV screen. So when you broadcast the best movies Or fantasy tv showsyou can always keep an eye on what’s happening in your home with Picture-in-Picture streaming.

Roku TV PiP mode

This feature is compatible with all Roku indoor and outdoor wired cameras and is accessible on “most” Roku players and 4K TVs (the company hasn’t mentioned which exact devices yet).

These features make good ecosystem integration features for Roku devices, thereby building brand loyalty.

Did you receive these new features via a Roku OS update? How do you like them? Let us know in the comments below!

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