Voice Assistants
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.
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Jonah builds home automations far more complicated than any household actually needs, purely for the challenge, then writes the stripped down version that works for everyone else without the troubleshooting headaches.
Voice Assistants
Most people set up an Echo, ask it for the weather for a fortnight and then forget about everything except timers.
Plugs and Switches
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...
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...
Voice Assistants
Last February my broadband went down for nineteen hours after a storm took out a street cabinet.
Plugs and Switches
Last winter I swapped the old rotary dimmer in my dining room for a smart dimmer switch, screwed six 5 watt LED candle bulbs...
Voice Assistants
Our house has two floors, a garage workshop and a teenager who wears headphones from 4pm onward.