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Old 06-12-2018, 08:59 AM   #2889
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Originally Posted by andyh2000 View Post
Yeah, that's the thing about home automation. You really need for it to just work. It's fine enjoying fiddling with technology for the fun of it but when you just want to turn on a light or change the TV channel it had better work first time every time.

Andrew
Indeed. And with this voice controlled, cloud-based stuff, we're still in the early adopter stage. If I tell Alexa to turn on the bathroom light, and she doesn't, I'll just flip the switch and override her. If I actually depended on the light coming on every time I asked, she and I would have a real problem....
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