Getting Started With Smart Home Automation

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TEC243: Smart home tech is ever more accessible, but if you’re just getting started where do you begin? Dom Bettinelli, Victor Lams, and Fr. Joseph Sund discuss the basic considerations, where to start, and why thinking of the others in your household first is necessary.

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