Hey guys!
We're really excited to launch our second product Covi!
Covi is a smart lamp from sand blasted glass with an aluminum base.
We integrated microphones and a speaker so you can connect to speech services like Alexa.
At the core, we've integrated a open source based smart home hub so you can automatically trigger your Sonos and the lamp as an alarm clock in the morning for example.
We've tried to find the right balance between design and technology and wanted to create the first true smart furniture piece. We've also shared a lot about the manufacturing process if you're interested.
Would be awesome to get your support!!
Thanks so much!! Tobias
COVI on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/802...
@tobias_eichenwald I've seen the production schedule on Kick-starter and it looks achievable, so i'm rooting for you guys. What's the plan after kickstarter?
@silas_ade After Kickstarter, we're going through 3 different production runs with our manufacturing partners, all in different batch sizes. The first pre-series will just be a handful of devices to make sure the production techniques all work at scale. The next batch will be a few hundred devices in which we test all last details. After that we move into mass manufacturing. Do you use any other smart home devices?
With hardware Kickstarters, there's probably more risk to it than others but I've known @tobias_eichenwald for a while, and they've already had a successful hardware product Kickstarted and delivered to customers. Simply put, these guys from Senic are wicked smart, genuinely passionate and build insanely cool shit.
My question as a hacker is, how customizable will Covi be? For example, can I change the trigger word from "Alexa" / "Covi" into something else?
@vu0tran Thanks Vu :) Trying our best. You should check out some of the videos from glass blowing. It's really beatiful.
For your question:
We've already open sourced the software of Covi including the OS:
https://github.com/getsenic/
- For speech, we're also looking into different options. At the moment you can use Covi the same way you would use Alexa (just in a piece of furniture for people who care about design with some additional functions) by using the Alexa trigger word.
- We're also looking into opening this up in the future as well as adding additional speech services / be open to other speech services.
- You can also trigger speech by simply tapping the base of Covi.
- It would be really great to hear what you would like to have access to?
WOW, congrats guys, very cool design and it looks like you chose high quality materials. Are you sure you can pull of manufacturing for this beauty without a big CM?
@flixko Thanks :) Really appreciate it.
Covi is our second product. We've already shipped thousands of devices of our first product Covi which we made with local manufacturers. We're using a lot of the same manufacturers again.
Glass was new to us but we also worked very closely with local glass manufacturers to get it production ready. Here you can see a really cool video of the prototyping process.
If you're interested we could show you some of the manufacturing first hand?
@tobias_eichenwald thanks for the quick reply, really cool video indeed! And perfect that you can build on established relationships with manufacturers, would love to see more for sure.
This looks amazing! Having an open source hub makes it very special. What integrations are already in place? As a developer, how can I participate in the ecosystem?
@jaipandya Thanks Jai! :) We're working down a list of requested devices. The most common ones like Sonos and Philips Hue are integrated.
- The best way to participate at the moment is to follow the repos on github: https://github.com/getsenic/seni...
- Also, here is a basic overview of our developer documentation:
https://developers.senic.com/
- We've been busy with preparing the kickstarter campaign but will update a lot more information.
- We also have a developer newsletter that you can subscribe to:
http://eepurl.com/bUbGND
Please let me know if you have any other questions!!
Hey! Covi looks interesting, I have been following you guys since you came out with the Nuimo.
The video is mostly showing voice usecases, can I control Covi with touch too? If yes, is the touch interface part of the open platform?
@skagarroum Hey Skander, thanks for the question. Yes, we also built in a simple dimmer to adjust the brightness. We've already open sourced our software and are currently trying to collect some feedback on what people would like to get access to. Are you a developer? Any things that would be important to you?
@pompaskin Hi Alicia, thanks :)
- Home automation: If you want to automatically start your Philips Hue in the morning, these sort of things all happen locally.
- Speech: The device has two levels of speech recognition. The first level only happens locally where the device can only recognize the trigger word like Alexa. Only once the trigger word has been used, a connection to the cloud is opened (since the speech processing needs to happen there)
I hope this helps! Thanks
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