Bringing it all together
Much like Pringles, once you start picking up smart home gear, it’s hard to stop. When you’ve had the benefit of smart lightning, you’ll be heading back for motion sensors, security cameras, air sensors and the rest. And that’s great, because what really makes a smart home smart is when you get all this stuff working together seamlessly.
GET YOURSELF CONNECTED
Most smart home products are compatible with a variety of systems that let them talk to each other, usually via some kind of central controlling hub. Here, we’ll cover all the most important ones, and how you can control them using apps, voice and more. When you buy, look out for the icons on the right, to know what they work with.
These aren’t the only ways you can get different products to talk to each other – tech like Logitech’s POP buttons (see issue 268) enable you to control multiple products at once, but they sometimes piggyback on these other systems to do it, or work on a more ad hoc basis, without the
