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How Smart Home Tech and Online Gaming Setups Work Together
Smart home technology and online gaming setups have quietly grown together, each making the other better.
A whole genre of games is built around automation, letting players design systems that handle tasks automatically, and in doing so they teach the exact principles behind a well-automated smart home.
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Smart home technology and online gaming setups have quietly grown together, each making the other better.
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A smart plug that reliably drops off a home network, requiring a genuine manual reset every week or two, while every other...
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A smart speaker that consistently mishears one specific word or phrase, while understanding essentially everything else you say...
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As voice assistants fill our homes, we are all learning to talk to machines, and games that respond to the human voice offer a...
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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.