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The lit ring is the speaker's status signal, showing it is listening, thinking or waiting to be set up.Photo: Smart Home Perfected · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page How to choose
The decisions that actually change what you end up with.
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A keypad smart lock with a fingerprint reader above the digits and a doorbell button below.Photo: TaurusEmerald · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page Comparisons
Like-for-like comparisons on the specifications that matter.
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A laboratory systems diagram of a robot and home-automation setup, not a photograph of consumer hardware.Photo: Authors of the study: Alicia Mora, Adrian Prados, Alberto Mendez, Gonzalo Espinoza, Pavel Gonzalez, Blanca Lopez, Victor Muñoz, Luis Moreno, Santiago Garrido, Ramon Barber · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page Budget and prices
What the total comes to once everything is counted.
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A bare bulb burning in a dark room, with no visible fitting, controls or connected hardware.Photo: user:Sking · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page Setting up
Getting it working properly the first time.
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A plain institutional corridor door with a mechanical closer, inside a public building.Photo: Jacklee · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page Performance
What the numbers mean in day-to-day use.
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A retrofit smart cylinder usually offers several ways in at once: fingerprint, PIN, key card and phone app.Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page Common mistakes
The expensive errors that are easy to avoid.
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