Plugs and Switches
What a Smart Plug Told Me About My Workshop Power Use
I plugged an energy monitoring smart plug into my table saw purely out of curiosity, expecting a boring confirmation of what I...
Smart home reviewer and early adopter
Milo buys new smart home devices the week they launch and keeps an unglamorous spreadsheet of exactly which ones have failed him and how long they lasted. He writes about gear the way he would warn a friend before they buy it.
Plugs and Switches
I plugged an energy monitoring smart plug into my table saw purely out of curiosity, expecting a boring confirmation of what I...
Buying Guides
A budget smart plug I bought for eight dollars during a flash sale worked perfectly for four months, then began randomly...
Buying Guides
I have returned more smart home devices than I care to admit, not because they were broken, but because the actual improvement...
Plugs and Switches
A reader once asked me why her smart plug would not dim her lamp the way her friend's smart bulb did, and the honest answer was...
Smart Lighting
I built fourteen lighting scenes in my first month with smart lighting, everything from "movie night" to "dinner party" to a...
Smart Lighting
My first smart home purchase was a four pack of color changing bulbs, and within a month I had two lamps nobody could turn on...