automation
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THE BEST MOTION SENSOR for HOME ASSISTANT: 7 TESTED & RANKED.
Reliability is everything when you are automating your home—I refuse to deal with false triggers or missed activity. Finding that level of precision demanded a serious evaluation of eight competing…
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BEST HOME ASSISTANT SENSORS: EXPERT TESTED COMPARISON (TOP 7 PICKS)
Installing and calibrating the fourteen different sensors I tested felt like setting up a small surveillance headquarters in my house. For eight straight weeks, I logged every single dropped connection…
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BEST CO2 SENSOR HOME ASSISTANT
For the past four weeks, I turned my personal smart home into an intense air quality testing laboratory. Ten top-rated sensors constantly monitored indoor conditions across three different humidity and…
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BEST PRESENCE SENSOR for HOME ASSISTANT
If you are building reliable smart home routines, old-school motion sensors simply don’t cut it anymore. I kept eight competing sensors running nonstop across three different rooms—my notoriously still office,…
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BEST BATHROOM EXHAUST FAN with HUMIDITY SENSOR
Matching fans to real-world moisture problems meant six full weeks of testing across my own home and two rental properties. I needed to know which units handle extreme steam effectively…
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BEST SOIL MOISTURE SENSOR: 5 MODELS TESTED and EXPERT RANKED
I threw ten different prototypes into the dirt across my garden beds and humid greenhouse for intense side-by-side evaluation. Sifting through all the data generated during those critical comparisons was…
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