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Title: A smarter home: My second try at the Internet of things Post by: HCK on December 11, 2015, 09:00:16 pm A smarter home: My second try at the Internet of things
<article> <section class="page"> <p> A few months back, I wrote a column here about how I had tried, and failed, to embrace smart-home tech (http://www.macworld.com/article/2979684/connected-home/the-gadgets-already-solved-it-simple-solutions-to-high-tech-problems.html) to solve some problems I had in my house. The story ended with me triumphantly realizing that sometimes, the high-tech solution is not the best one.</p><p> Well, I fell off the wagon.</p><p> The timer switch I installed for my front-door lights—so they’d turn on automatically at sunset and stay on until 11 p.m.—burned out a bunch of my light bulbs. Just as with my attempts to install a WeMo switch this summer, I was being let down by the 1950s-era wiring in my house.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3013821/home-tech/a-smarter-home-my-second-try-at-the-internet-of-things.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: A smarter home: My second try at the Internet of things (http://www.macworld.com/article/3013821/home-tech/a-smarter-home-my-second-try-at-the-internet-of-things.html#tk.rss_all) |