GADGET GURU
Q KERRY ERICSSON, LONDON
How can I make my whole house smart?
A Guru has long bounced off the whole smart home thing, despite acting as smart home correspondent for a number of reputable publications in the past, but a light has turned itself on within him: that stuff you’re doing with Alexa and Wi-Fi? It’s not smart home. It’s smart Barbie Dreamhouse. It’s dumb home. It is simply the cloying cream on top of a delicious bottle of smart milk. To do smart home right, you need to roll up your sleeves.
This means, unfortunately for you, a period of learning, during which you will need to absorb the icky jargon and hideous interface of
