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The other guy is right - if you have a network outage your appliances revert to “normal” behavior.

But even after that, it’s not just about the time saved. It’s an increased amount of convenience in day to day life. I mentioned this in another comment, but you definitely feel a sort of reduction in cognitive load when your desired home state can be triggered with a spoken word.



> if you have a network outage your appliances revert to “normal” behavior.

Would that that were true. Internet of Shit is rife with examples of products that fail completely without connectivity.

https://twitter.com/internetofshit


Light switches cause cognitive load? If anything, people have too little cognitive load keeping their brains off most of the time.




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