Once you have this lighting automated, move on to automating lighting in your home that smart bulbs make sense for, like closets & pantries. If you have lamps or any kind of lighting that plugs into an outlet, start by buying several smart plugs to automate those. That’s what I did and it made the process not feel like so much work. Instead, start by automating just a handful of lights, and then add from there. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, remember, you don’t have to automate every light in your home right away. With those two words you’ll be able to turn off all the lights in your house. Two of the more popular smart speakers on the market today are Amazon Alexa and Google Home.Īs you add more and more smart products to your home, you can create a routine that includes all of them and simply call it “Alexa, Goodbye”. Once you have all your smart products setup, you can add them to a smart speaker so that they can all be controlled from a single app. So don’t be intimidated, but definitely do your research. That said, I can say from experience that I had never changed a light switch before and was able to change 6 of them for smart switches this past year without any issues. If money isn’t an issue you can always hire an electrician to do the installation for you, but otherwise prepare yourself for a bit of a time commitment.
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Smart light switches will cost more than plugs and bulbs and require quite a bit more work and know-how in order to install them. However, nothing worth having comes easy.
This is the main differentiator between smart bulbs and switches, and it’s a big one. What’s great about them is you gain complete control over a lot of light bulbs in your house for every smart switch you install AND you can still use the physical light switch as you please to control these lights.
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