UGREEN HomeAgent First Look： Local AI for Your Smart Home

Have you heard of Ugreen? You've probably heard of Ugreen, right? They make some really nice tech accessories, some great NAS systems. Well, they are about to do something big in the smart home space. They just dropped something new, something brand new, unlike anything I've seen before for your smart home. And they invited me out to Boston to learn more about it at their live event. I'm excited. Let's go check it out. Big thanks to Ugreen for sponsoring this video and bringing me out to Boston to attend their live event. All right, so I knew Ugreen was gonna get more into the smart home space because I remember them showing off some smart home cameras a little while ago at one of the big tech trade shows, but I had no idea they were gonna go this hard. They just introduced a new product called HomeAgent. It's a living local intelligence for your smart home. So when they asked if I wanted to fly to Boston to learn more and see it in action, I couldn't resist. All right, so there's already different ways you can integrate AI into your smart home already, but they often either rely on cloud processing or they're just very tedious and difficult to set up. And often they're pretty slow when you're running them locally. Ugreen HomeAgent seems different because it's an agentic AI hub for your smart home that can run locally and it works right out of the box. With local storage, local computing, and local AI at its core, you can manage your home security and control your entire home using natural spoken language. Ugreen was kind enough to send me a HomeAgent and some cameras just before I left for this event. So I did get some early hands on with it, but I didn't really get a whole lot of time with it before the event. I wanted to come out here to see what all it can do. They're gonna have some demos set up and we can really learn a lot about this thing and see if this could be the future of our smart homes. ♪ That we can, that we can, that we can, that we can do ♪ I made my way into the event located at Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots, where Ugreen started with an opening presentation introducing their new AI OT strategy and new products. The centerpiece of all this is HomeAgent and the basic idea is to combine three things, local storage, local AI processing, and smart home control. and they kept coming back to privacy throughout the presentation. Your camera recordings, photos, smart home data, AI processing, all stays inside your house, which means better privacy, faster and more reliable connections, and even if there's an internet loss, it can still run on your local area network. They actually introduced three versions of the HomeAgent, the H100, the one that I have, which is essentially the main consumer model, probably the one most people would be interested in. Then there's the H100 Pro with substantially more compute power, and then the absolutely insane MasterAgent powered by NVIDIA hardware that starts at around $20,000. You heard that right. I'll probably just stick with the H100. They also introduced their new camera lineup, a smart speaker, digital E-Ink frame, and some new Qi2 25-watt charging devices with liquid cooling. After the presentation, we got to go hands-on with everything. HomeAgent can act as a matter controller, which means you're not limited to only Ugreen smart home products. So with the HomeAgent, you can use natural voice commands and natural language to control your other smart home devices like smart shades and lights, and it supports matter, so you can connect third-party matter devices to the HomeAgent and then control them through this all locally, which is pretty cool. Let's give it a try. Hi, Yulia. I'm here. Turn on the light in the living room. Light is on. Well, the light came on. Hey, Yulia. Turn off the light in the living room. Light is off. Oh, there we go. It works. And obviously, these lights and shades are not made by Ugreen. These are third-party matter devices that you can pair to the Ugreen HomeAgent and control and automate in your smart home. Hey, Yulia. Close the curtains. There we go. And the goal is for HomeAgent to understand what you actually want using natural language, then figure out how you wanna make it happen. I'm definitely looking forward to testing this much more when I get back home. And just like their NAS systems, HomeAgent can run apps including Docker, meaning you can even install Home Assistant on it. We also got that new line of cameras that work directly with the system. Because the AI processing happens locally, HomeAgent can analyze what's happening around your house and recognize things like people, vehicles, pets, security events, and more. You can even ask the HomeAgent where your dog is. The local AI can identify key events, potential risk, and alert you when needed. So you can get smart alerts for unusual activity, your baby crying, or a stranger showing up at the door. All right, so when the baby starts crying, we're gonna get a notification on the HomeAgent as well as on your phone or other devices. Baby crying detected. Please go take care of the baby. The camera detects the crying, HomeAgent understands what's happening, and pushes out an alert to your devices. You can also define areas around your home that you want monitored, and if someone enters one of those zones, HomeAgent can recognize the event and take action. All right, entering the monitoring zone. Warning zone. Right here. Entering private property. Getting a warning. Pretty cool. Alert zone. Pretty nice. You can even use natural language to ask things like, did anyone come to the front door today? And it will search through your locally stored camera history and find an answer for you. This is where Ugreen's experience with NAS and storage starts to make a whole lot of sense for a new home product like this. Again, they also showed off some additional products like this smart speaker that you can pair to the HomeAgent and get voice control in multiple rooms throughout your house. They also have that color e-ink smart frame that will display photos stored on your HomeAgent. Again, all local. Ugreen also announced Patriot's cornerback, Christian Gonzalez, as their new global brand ambassador, which now makes sense why they had this event at Gillette Stadium. I also got a hands-on look at their new wireless fast chargers, including the world's first liquid-cooled Qi2 25-watt magnetic power bank. I've always liked the Ugreen charging accessories, and I am excited about these. But as you can imagine, the HomeAgent is easily the one thing I am most excited about from this event. Now, this is all still very early, and I do look forward to testing this much more in my everyday life once back home. But the concept is pretty compelling and makes a whole lot of sense. Matter Smart Home Control, local camera storage, local AI processing, natural language interactions, all running from a box inside your house. All right, so I gotta say, pretty impressed with everything I saw here. Easy to set up local AI for your smart home really has me excited. I'll put links to everything down below in the video description if you wanna learn more about Ugreen's new HomeAgent. You can reserve one right now for $50 and save 50% on the overall price. I definitely can't wait to get back home and put this thing to use in the real world. If you wanna see a future video on that or more smart home content, be sure to subscribe for more videos every week. Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.