Josh.ai released its annual Wrapped recap this year, and we figured it would be a fun jaunt to look at how people have been using their smart home systems this year while CE Pro is putting a bow on its own recap for the year.
Privacy Disclosure
Before we get into it, it’s worth noting that all the data we’re about to look over only comes from participating households. This means that this Wrapped isn’t a full representation of the userbase and are instead, as Josh coins it, “an aggregation of the most common activations among participating users, gathered anonymously.”
Josh.ai Wrapped: How Often Were People Using Their Systems?
In 2025, Josh.ai saw 158 million actions taken on its control systems, which, for comparison, last year’s Wrapped saw 83 million actions executed. Voice usage also rose 37% with over 5 million voice commands being levied in 2025 compared to 2024’s 3.6 million.
We don’t know how many people participated in the recap, however, so, unfortunately, we don’t quite know what the average number of uses per person is (which is honestly something I would love to see in future iterations of the Wrapped, if at all possible).
We do have some other interesting stats, however.
Areas of the Home that Saw the Most Usage
Image courtesy of Josh.ai
Looking at the breakdown of where people interacted with their Josh.ai systems the most, the kitchen topped out above all else, tracking clean with how that section of the home has grown to be the main gathering space over the years. The ousted champion even sits below it, with the living room being the second most popular area of the home.
Behind that is the primary bedroom, followed by the home office, and completed by the home theater. All of these are worth taking note of however, especially the kitchen, bedroom and office, as these usage metrics show just how integrated these sections of the home have grown.
Types of Devices Being Controlled
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Lighting was by far the most controlled device on Josh.ai systems in 2025 (no shock there), followed by music and shading for the top three spots. More than being a metric for measuring interactions throughout the day, it also shows how integrated these products categories have been getting over time.
Lighting, audio and video are all old news, as those are perhaps the products most expected to be hooked up to a control system. Shading, however, has been making the rounds, as we’ve glimpsed in our own category deep dive, and the usage numbers (at least on Josh.ai systems) provide a nice bit of corroboration there.
If you’re curious about how that translates into scenes are being used the most, here are those:
- Good Morning
- Good Night
- Movie Time
- Goodbye
- I’m Home
Additional Context for Josh.ai Systems
One thing that gets touched on in the Wrapped section is how Josh itself has risen in usage over the years it has been around, rising in the 2025 CE Pro Brand Analysis ranking. Beyond that, however, we’ve heard our own murmurings at industry events from pros who have gone all-in on Josh.ai as their main control system. Sightings are rare, though, and an integrator being wedded to a single control system or platform isn’t out of the ordinary, but it does go to show how Josh.ai has evolved since its original inception with the evolution of the AI X OS, as well as the Nimble DevSuite allowing manufacturers to help build out the ecosystem of supported products on Josh.
