The Feather River Door is a Smart Glass Door, and Its Integration with The Home Depot Smart Home Platform Using a Voice Command
The Feather River door is prehung and has built-in smart glass. A button on the door lets you change the glass from clear to opaque, and it works with The Home Depot’s Hubspace smart home app to control it from your phone. A schedule can be set so that the glass is clear during the day and opaque at night. A three-quarter lite door costs $788, a half lite door is $899 and a full lite door is $988, like a non-smart front door.
The Home Depot has a new concept called Hubspace which is supposed to demystify the smart home for its customers. Despite the name, the smart home platform doesn’t require a hub, just the Hubspace app. With it, you can connect and control a wide range of The Home Depot’s store brands, from smart lights and shades to bathroom fans and thermostats.
The smart glass door is the retail giant’s first Hubspace collaboration with a third party. Using a voice command, it can make your door clear or opaque by connecting to smart home systems like Amazon or Google Home.
The glass and connection are powered by the battery. Unlike The Home Depot’s first attempt at selling a smart door — the $4,000 M-PWR smart door from Masonite — the Feather River door doesn’t feature built-in power for a smart doorbell or door lock. It’s a standard door outside of the glass. The door can act as a bridge for Hubspace-compatible wi-fi locks with the addition of a battery-powered smart lock.
The door is designed to fit a standard entryway and comes with a frame and weather stripping for easy installation. The glass is exterior security strength and an option is coming soon according to The Home Depot.
These days, smart home gadgets are able to do anything. If you have the gusto, you can change everything from the garage door to the light bulb. Front doors have had smart accessories added to them over the years—smart door locks, video doorbells, sensors to tell you whether the door is shut—so why not make the door itself smart?
The Smart Glass door has decorative panels at the bottom and a paintable fiberglass construction which gives it a contemporary look. It offers four window size options, letting the smart glass fill up most, half, or just the top quarter of the door’s center. The door with the small, Craftsman-style window is the least expensive at $798, while the three-quarter window and full-size window both retail for $998.
