10 Things That REALLY Annoy Me About Smart Homes!

Smart home tech can be REALLY useful and cool, especially when it genuinely improves our home lives. But sometimes it just fails to work properly OR the companies who sell the gadgets hike prices and remove useful features - which is really annoying.
So in this video I discuss the top 10 things that annoy me most about smart homes, and how to fix/workaround each one.
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You can read more about these points on the Smart Home Point blog:
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How to fix annoyances with voice assistants (point #1):
- Echo Voice Recognition - www.smarthomepoint.com/amazon...
- Alexa Name Recognition - www.smarthomepoint.com/alexa-...
- Is Alexa Getting Worse? - www.smarthomepoint.com/amazon...
Ring's original price hikes (point #2) - www.smarthomepoint.com/ring-p...
Various smart home technologies (#point 3) - www.smarthomepoint.com/zigbee...
Local only control with smart hubs including HA (point #4) - www.smarthomepoint.com/smart-...
Ring's Resolution Is Low (point #6) - www.smarthomepoint.com/ring-f...
Home Assistant Demo & First Steps (point #8) - www.home-assistant.io/
Changing smart light's color temperature (point #9) - www.smarthomepoint.com/smart-...
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The individual timestamps for this video are:
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00:00 I'm Annoyed!
00:20 #1 - Voice Assistants
01:00 #2 - Ring's Price Hikes
01:43 #3 - Too Many Technologies
02:23 #4 - No Internet Fallback
03:10 #5 - Removal Of Features
03:45 #6 - Ring Camera/Doorbell Resolution
04:35 #7 - Security Breaches
05:25 #8 - Launch Hype
05:40 Home Assistant Demo
06:06 #9 - Overpriced Products
06:43 #10 - Smart Lighting Doesn't Work
08:04 Final Thoughts
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Credits
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Thanks to the following resources (sounds, images etc):
"Pop-up Sound" by BeezleFM (freesound.org/s/512135/ -- License: Attribution 4.0)
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#SmartHome #Alexa #Ring

[@cbcdesign001]

No11. The maintenance required to keep the smart home running!

[@qapaMcFly]

Good point on the lighting. If you really want it smart you need smart switch thats not actually toggling the switch but sends toggle event to HA to do the rest. But that also means if HA dies youre out of lights.

[@benwouda]

There are enough switches that control the relay behind the switch that keep working when your smarthome is offline or broken

[@qapaMcFly]

@@benwouda Yeah but thats for dumb lights (not dimmable, color changing etc.) If you go this way with dimmable color changing etc. you will turn them on with the switch but will need to wait before they connect to change their color / dim them etc. Which kinda sucks.