Back in the 1980s Aimee Mann and her band ‘Til Tuesday had a big hit song, “Voices Carry.” Based on the home technology company Josh.ai’s new AI-powered remote control, “Voices Carry” is taking on a whole-new meaning.
During the company’s annual Josh Keynote 2026 event, which was streamed on YouTube, the company introduced its latest solutions that were headlined by the Josh Edge AI-powered remote control. The remote offers a combination of hard buttons and advanced voice control to allow users to simply press a button to activate an action or verbalize a command.
The keynote took place in a 12,000-square-foot home in Newport Beach, Calif., that was completely outfitted with Josh.ai technologies. The company pointed out the installation was performed by Jason Bernhardt of Custom Connections, and the high-profile integrator Kyle Steele of Global Wave Integration, joined the keynote as a guest.
Josh.ai Edge Remote Puts the Power of AI into Homeowners’ Hands
While the remote, along with the voice control capabilities are what homeowners will interact with daily, the role of the company’s AI X OS should not be overlooked.
The upcoming OS is expected to roll out this spring, and it will connect every product in the Josh.ai ecosystem. Josh.ai boasts the platform offers greater customization capabilities, improved user friendliness and new design elements that include:
- Favorites-First Home Screen: Users can pin their most important devices as priorities with each household member capable of receiving their own unique layout.
- Bottom Navigation Bar: A redesigned navigation bar makes it more efficient than ever to control and customize a Josh.ai smart home.
- Active Media Hub: This feature provides instant access to currently playing music and video control from anywhere within the app.
- New Voice Experience: A refreshed microphone interface delivers faster, more contextual AI interactions for nearfield commands.
- Device Categorization: Devices are automatically organized by category within each area to clean up room-level views while simplifying navigation.
- AI-Guided Scene Creation:ai actively recommends and generates scenes based on a home’s layout, connected devices, and a user’s living patterns.
Everyone Invited to Smart Home Party
To accommodate the growing technology integration industry, Josh.ai’s Nimble DevSuite answers the need for dealers integrating products and solutions from across the custom installation industry.
This is important because with Josh.ai’s efforts to broaden the scope of its integrated technologies to allow dealers to use a wider variety of components, the level of system customization will grow.
Looking at the list of new partners that are helping to foster these capabilities, it’s clear that with the diversity of manufacturers, that dealers can now more easily leverage the allure of AI home control and automation:
- Aprilaire S86 Thermostat
- Blaze by Sonance amplifiers
- Deako Lighting
- DMX and DALI: lighting protocols
- ICE Realtime PoE doorstation
- Jandy Pool and spa
- Konnected garage doors
- Level smart door locks
- Origin Acoustics amplifiers
- Somfy PoE shade products
- Theory amplifiers
- Pentair pool and spa
- Shelly Bluetooth sensors
Perhaps most significantly, Josh.ai emphasizes the compatibility with Somfy PoE motors signifies a milestone through the collaboration of Chowmainsoft as an independent developer.
More importantly, through these announcements, it means the smart home now approaches the public perception of what an automated home should be, and Josh.ai is helping to make that happen.
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