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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Every guide we have published, newest first. Setup notes, honest reviews, and the occasional argument with advice that ignores what actually breaks once a device has been running for a year.
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...
Buying Guides
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...
Buying Guides
Your phone shows full bars, yet the smart plug in the garage keeps going offline and the doorbell takes four seconds to wake...
Voice Assistants
Last February my broadband went down for nineteen hours after a storm took out a street cabinet.