How do you convince your wife that your smart home system (that’s broken half the time) is actually more convenient?
I swear the hardest part of having a smart home isn’t figuring out compatibility or sifting through hundreds of devices to find the what works—it’s convincing my wife that this whole setup is, in fact, easier.
She says with a traditional remote, you just press a button, and it works. But that's not very convenient is it? With a smart home, you simply:
- Logging into an app that’s mysteriously logged you out.
- Troubleshooting why the smart remote isn’t connecting.
- Turning the device on and off.
- Discovering one device updated itself and is now incompatible with everything else.
- Rolling back to an earlier firmware.
- Rebuilding all your automations from scratch because for some reason they have deleted themselves.
- Going on a work trip and finding out your lights won’t turn on because the local hub somehow got unplugged.
Obviously, this is a far superior system! My wife doesn’t seem to understand how much smoother our lives are now. How do I convince her of this self-evident truth?
Bonus: If anyone has tips on how to convince my wife to let me plug back in the rack-mount server I scored on Facebook Marketplace, I’m all ears. I mean, sure, it sounds like a jet plane taking off, but that’s not that annoying, right? Totally worth it for the sweet minecraft server I will be able to host.