Your front door is the key to the smart home

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge When we talk about the smart home, we often talk about grand visions of perfectly automated everything. You know the ones: you wake up perfectly rested thanks to some bedside light thing, and as you stretch luxuriously toward the ceiling, a sensor notices and turns on the coffee pot, starts steaming the sauna, and starts playing a curated playlist of all your favorite songs. It sounds nice! It is... mostly not how the smart home actually works.
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