TL; DR
- Roku previously announced smart home integration features, namely Camera Carousel, TV notifications, and the Roku Smart Home Web View. These features are rolling out now.
- Roku is also introducing and rolling out a new picture-in-picture feature for camera feeds.
Roku TV and players are quite popular in the market. It gives 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, enhanced notifications for Roku TVs, and Web View for accessing camera feeds from other web devices. Now Roku provides all these features and brings Picture in Picture for your camera feed.
Roku previously announced these features for the Roku Smart Home:
- Camera Carousel: It automatically cycles through each camera feed on your TV, using motion detection to show the camera where motion is occurring.
- More notifications on TV: Now you’ll get alerts on your TV (in addition to your phone) when your camera detects pets, packages, and people. This feature requires a Camera subscription.
- Roku Smart Home Web View: Users can now conveniently watch all camera feeds from any browser by visiting cams.roku.com.
These Smart Home integration features were announced earlier this fall and are now rolling out to Roku users.
As part of the holiday update, Roku now also lets you pin your camera feeds to your Roku TV screen. So when you broadcast the best movies or fantastic TV showsyou can still watch what’s going on In your home via the image feed.
The feature is compatible with all Roku indoor and outdoor wired cameras, and can be used on “most” 4K Roku players and TVs (the company hasn’t yet specified which devices exactly).
These features combine as good ecosystem integration features for Roku devices, increasing brand loyalty in the process.
Did you get these new features via Roku OS update? How do you like them? Let us know in the comments below!
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