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“How and why you should make your home smart (it’s cheap and secure!)” by Mikhail Samin

03 Nov 2025

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Your average day starts with an alarm on your phone. Sometimes, you wake up a couple of minutes before it sounds. Sometimes, you find the button to snooze it. Sometimes, you’re already on the phone and it appears as a notification. But when you finally stop it, the lights in your room turn on and you start your day. You walk out of your room. A presence sensor detects your motion, and a bulb in a cute little bamboo lamp from IKEA outside your room lights up. You go downstairs, into the living room/kitchen/workspace area. As you come in, 20 different lights turn on in perfect sync. It is very satisfying. You put some buckwheat to boil. Go upstairs to load a washing machine. Go through your morning routine (when you stop by your room, the lights turn on as you enter). You go back downstairs. The lights are still on: You’ve not left the area for long enough. You eat your buckwheat with oat milk, open the laptop, and do some work. An hour later, a notification appears: the washing machine has finished washing. (Depending on whether you tapped an NFC tag next to the washing machine with [...] ---Outline:(04:28) 1. Home Assistant(06:52) 2. Local network(08:16) 3. Lights(10:02) 4. Sensors and actuators(13:30) 5. Automations The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 3rd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eoFuko87vWhARSCNE/how-and-why-you-should-make-your-home-smart-it-s-cheap-and --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

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“How and why you should make your home smart (it’s cheap and secure!)” by Mikhail Samin

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13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

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12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

2ª PARTE | 06 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

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