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Your phone shows full bars, yet the smart plug in the garage keeps going offline and the doorbell takes four seconds to wake...
Your porch light is either burning all night for nobody or still off when you pull into a dark driveway with a bag of groceries.
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Your phone shows full bars, yet the smart plug in the garage keeps going offline and the doorbell takes four seconds to wake...
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Last February my broadband went down for nineteen hours after a storm took out a street cabinet.
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Last winter I swapped the old rotary dimmer in my dining room for a smart dimmer switch, screwed six 5 watt LED candle bulbs...
Smart Lighting
The ceiling light in most kitchens sits behind you while you cook, which means your own head casts a shadow right on the...
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Ask anyone who works the returns desk at a hardware store and they will tell you most smart thermostats come back for the same...
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Our house has two floors, a garage workshop and a teenager who wears headphones from 4pm onward.
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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.