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The Smart Home Admin Problem: Who Inherits Your Setup?
I've got seven smart home hubs running in my house right now, and if something happened to me tomorrow, my wife would have no idea how to get into a…
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Network first, then hubs, then the fun stuff. Automations that keep working.
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Wearables, headphones and AI glasses, measured on the same wrist for a month.
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Everything reviewed here gets used the way you would use it — in a working home office, on a live smart-home network, on the move, day after day. Not unboxed, photographed and returned.
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