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Why Smart Home Automations Stop Working and How to Fix Them

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.

JPJonah PryceSep 28, 2026Automation and Routines
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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.

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