Each guide answers one buying question and shows the figures behind the answer.
3 guides
How to choose
The radio, the hub and the support window decide whether a smart home survives five years. Here is how to read all three before you buy anything.
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Budget and prices
Hardware spread over its life, standby electricity, cloud subscriptions and GST/HST. The four lines that make up a Canadian smart home's yearly cost.
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Setting up
Separate network, unique passwords, names that make sense in a year and firmware you actually check. The setup order that keeps a smart home running.
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