The Wife Acceptance Factor Is the Only Spec That Matters
There's a specific flavor of humility only a smart home can deliver, and for me it showed up at the bathroom vanity. I'd been wanting to play with Matter, so I picked up six new bulbs for the front bath — three over each sink. On paper it was everything home automation promises. I could control them individually, in groups of three as "left sink" and "right sink," or all together as "vanity." And — I was sure I'd done this right — I'd preserved every affordance the household already knew. The same wall switches we'd been flipping for years were still right there. Worst case, I told myself, you flip the switch and the lights come on. Belt and suspenders. ...