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Alexa Routines Worth Setting Up and the Ones to Skip
Most people set up an Echo, ask it for the weather for a fortnight and then forget about everything except timers.
You want a robot vacuum that cleans the floor while you are out, but the price range runs from $150 to $1,800 and every box promises the same thing.
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Most people set up an Echo, ask it for the weather for a fortnight and then forget about everything except timers.
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You bought a smart switch, turned off the breaker, pulled the old switch out of the wall and found only two wires and a bare...
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A smart smoke detector costs three to five times more than a basic alarm, and the box makes it sound like the extra money buys...
Smart Lighting
Your porch light is either burning all night for nobody or still off when you pull into a dark driveway with a bag of...
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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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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.