Your smart home questions, answered
There are a few universal truths about the smart home. Yes, you will come and treat your robot vacuum cleaner like a member of the family, and no, you can’t escape the fact that there will always be a light that won’t come on even though there is simply no reason why it shouldn’t. These are just facts.
Beyond that, the only thing we know for sure about the smart home is that it’s hard to do well. You must navigate a tangle of standards and ecosystems, optimize your control systems, and design many seemingly basic features yourself. The industry seems to be on the path to something much better! But we are not there yet.
On this episode of The VergecastWe tackle some tricky smart home issues with our in-house smart home expert, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy. We spend the entire episode answering your questions about everything you’re wondering about your smart homes. She offers tips, buying advice and lots of expert knowledge on Apple’s smart home plans, smart faucets, premium smart home brands, Home Assistant, Matter, smoke detectors and much more.
If you want to ask more questions, Jen or anyone else, you can always call the Vergecast hotline at 866-VERGE11 or email us at vergecast@theverge.com. (You can call or email about anything, but everyone always seems to have smart home questions to ask Jen…) And if you want to learn more about the topics we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started:
