Guides

Plain answers, no sales pitch.

What we tell people on WhatsApp, written down. Five short reads.

What a locally run alarm does when a door opens at 2am, what it cannot do, and who it suits.

How local camera AI tells a person from a cat, why the recordings stay in your house, and what you see on your phone.

Which cloud devices can join a local smart home, which cannot, and how to switch without waste.

What happens when a home camera sees past your boundary, the four things that keep you on the right side of it, and where people usually go wrong.

Salt air kills cheap outdoor cameras within a couple of winters. The ratings, materials and mounting details that decide which ones last.

Where monthly fees hide in a smart home, what a home run on its own hub still costs you, and 5 questions that show whether a no-fee promise is real.

Why most camera apps show stills or one camera at a time, what a live grid of every camera needs, and where in the house you can watch it.

What keeps running in a locally run smart home when the broadband drops, what honestly needs a connection, and a 10-minute test you can do yourself.

How a voice assistant can hear, understand and answer on a hub in your house, what it is good at, what still needs the internet, and where it stops.

Each room at its own temperature, on one plan for the week: what room by room needs, how the plan and presets work, and what it honestly does not do.

What a fitted smart home involves, step by step: the photos we ask for, the fixed price, a typical fitting day, the handover and what happens after.

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