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The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience?
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That was the same guide I used! Bought like 20 of these plugs to integrate with HomeAssistant and espHome, added bonus was the energy monitoring.
I've got eight of them and am not using them all, but sometimes I worry I should've gotten more when I had the chance, just in case.
I miss the '90s, when you could count on new tech to get better instead of worse.