Smart Lighting
Smart Lighting Scenes for Watching Live Sports
The first time I tried to use smart lights for a big football match, I made the living room look like a nightclub.
For about a year, my evening lighting routine worked perfectly. At sunset the living room lights came on at 60 percent, at 10:30 they dimmed and at 11:15 they turned off. Then one week it simply stopped. Some nights nothing happened.
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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...
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...
Automation and Routines
My longest trip away from a fully automated house so far was three weeks, and I went into it more nervous about the house than...
Buying Guides
My cousin plays Counter-Strike 2 at a level I do not fully understand, scrimming with a five stack most weeknights and grinding...
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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.