Then there are the apps. So many apps. Every device has its own app. The more smart home gadgets you add, the more cluttered your phone becomes. Keeping track of which app controls which device is tricky enough. But you must also install them for everyone else and train them, or accept your role as the gatekeeper of settings for the household….

We need innovative solutions to problems like how to keep your light switches turned on. We need smart assistants that are capable of weighing context and interpreting voice commands without wake words or precise syntax. And we need secure, privacy-conscious ways of enabling the smart home to track us so that it might fulfill its proactive promise and deliver what we want before we have to ask for it.

Read more:

Hill, S. (2022, June 11). Controlling My Family’s Smart Home Is Driving Us Mad. Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/family-smart-home-control-rant/