Milo is a bizarro Echo Plus, with Google Assistant and Z-Wave
After the Amazon Echo started to get its owners hooked on smart home gadgets, Amazon went ahead and added Zigbee — a low-power smart home protocol — to the new Echo Plus, letting owners go even further.
Google still hasn’t tried that with the Google Home, but another company has come along and offered what’s essentially a bizarro version of the Echo Plus: it runs Google Assistant, instead of Alexa, and it includes support for Z-Wave, a smart home protocol that competes with Zigbee.
Milo is the first consumer-oriented product from the smart home company Hogar Controls. It’s reminiscent of a Google Home — short and squad and wrapped in fabric. It has a little less polish than Google’s device, but it does have a couple nice…
