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Energy-Monitoring Smart Plugs: The £15 Gadget That Pays for Itself
What a plug with a wattage meter actually reveals once it's on the appliance everyone assumed was fine
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Smart Thermostats: The Payback Maths Nobody Shows You
The savings claim on the box, and the honest number once installation and habits are counted
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Zigbee vs Wi-Fi Smart Devices: Which for a House Full of Them
The radio choice that barely matters at five devices and matters enormously at fifty
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The Best Cheap Indoor Camera That Stores Footage Locally
Picking a budget camera that keeps your footage on a card in the room, not on someone else's server
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Air Purifiers: HEPA Marketing vs the CADR Number That Matters
The one spec that predicts whether a purifier actually clears a room, and the label that doesn't
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Thread Border Routers: What You Actually Need to Buy
The device you probably already own, and the one worth buying if you don't
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Smart Bulbs Teardown: Why the £4 and the £20 Both Flicker
What's actually inside a smart bulb, and where the cheap ones cut corners that show up as flicker
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The Best Video Doorbell Without a Subscription
Picks that store footage without a recurring fee attached
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SwitchBot Hub: Retrofitting a Dumb Home Without Rewiring
The infrared-and-robot-finger approach to a rented flat's dumb switches
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Robot Vacuums Under £300: Which Corners Do They Actually Cut?
The features that quietly disappear once you drop below flagship pricing
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Matter, Two Years On: Did the One-Standard Promise Arrive?
What the smart-home unification standard actually delivered by late 2024
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Aqara vs Sonoff: The Honest Budget Smart-Home Ecosystem
Two cheap-hub strategies for the same locked-in problem
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The Best Smart Plug That Doesn't Need the Cloud
Picks that keep working when the manufacturer's servers don't