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Smart home & automation · 3 min read
Lighting automation guests won't hate
Motion lighting with sensible timeouts, scenes instead of surprises, and switches that still work: how to automate lights people enjoy.
Smart home & automation · 4 min read
Matter in the real world: what works, what doesn't
Matter promised one smart home standard for everything. Here is where it delivers, where it falls short, and how we use it on installs.
Smart home & automation · 4 min read
Smart locks that keep working when the internet doesn't
Why locally controlled smart locks beat cloud-dependent Wi-Fi models, what still works during an internet outage, and battery habits that matter.