[faeriechangling]

Smart home stuff can't overcome the fundamental issue of complexity creep and the brittleness and unreliability inherent to it.

I've had a network connected soundbar bring down my home internet. My lights were set to re-enter the state they were in when they were last on, no way to turn those on without factory resetting them all and pairing all my devices again. My smart assistants were on a hair trigger, if anything tripped their wake word they would start a cacophony of complaints about not being able to connect to wifi and demands to be reset.

I'll give my smarthome crap one thing though, it's genuinely educational,