Automation and Routines
Why Smart Home Automations Stop Working and How to Fix Them
For about a year, my evening lighting routine worked perfectly.
Video games are full of automated systems, from homes that run themselves to machines that work on command, and these offer surprisingly useful lessons about real smart-home living.
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Automation and Routines
For about a year, my evening lighting routine worked perfectly.
Smart Lighting
The first time I tried to use smart lights for a big football match, I made the living room look like a nightclub.
Buying Guides
Smart home technology is sold on the promise of simplicity, a home that responds to your voice and runs itself, but anyone who...
Games
Video games have long been visionaries of the future home, imagining connected, automated living spaces that reflect our hopes,...
Automation and Routines
Watching football at home is a ritual for millions, and smart home technology can quietly turn it from just switching on the...
Home Security
A small rural land trust reached out to me last year after a string of dumping incidents and a few instances of equipment theft...
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Three people who actually live with the gear they write about: a reviewer who buys new devices the day they launch and keeps a running list of what has failed him, a former security systems installer who now writes about what cameras and sensors actually protect against, and someone who builds absurdly complex home automations for fun and then writes the simpler version everyone else actually needs. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not set up themselves.