Guide To Smart Home in 2023

Smart Homes: Where To Get Started

In a smart home, you have a collection of different smart home technologies in different places, each automating that would require physical effort.

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Ensuring your home is safe should be paramount for anyone. You want to keep your friends, family, and personal belongings in and unwanted visitors and the weather out.

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These battery-powered lights are easy to install and are motion sensitive so if someone or something goes where it shouldn’t, a bright light will illuminate them for everyone to see.

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Smart speakers such as Google Home Mini or Amazon Echo Dot are more than just ways for you to listen to music. These smart speakers allow you to dictate voice commands to Siri, Google Assistant, or Alexa.

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Once you’ve connected your lightbulbs, you can adjust color temperature, set schedules, and automate them turning on or off.

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