Honest Smart Home Reviews, Made for the UK
A smart switch for multi-gang plates is a wall-mounted controller that puts two, three or more lighting circuits on one faceplate. Each channel can be switched by app, voice or schedule while still working as an ordinary button. It replaces your existing plate, keeps the familiar look and adds automation. Sounds simple. It isn’t. The … Read more
A smart relay module for garage door control is a small Wi-Fi or Zigbee switch that wires into your opener’s push-button terminals and imitates a wall-button press. It uses a dry contact relay, so it sends no power into the opener, letting you open, close and monitor the door from your phone. Here’s the thing … Read more
Most of us live with lighting that has exactly two moods: interrogation room and cave. A smart dimmer switch fixes that. It lets you glide from bright kitchen-counter clarity to a soft, golden dinner glow without leaving the sofa. It can also remember the setting, obey your voice and switch the lights on before you’ve … Read more
Unscrew the plate on a typical British light switch and you’ll meet an awkward truth: two wires, an earth, and no blue neutral in sight. That gap is why so many smart switches look brilliant in the product photos and refuse to work on your wall. A no neutral smart switch is built for exactly … Read more
A smart relay module is a compact, network-connected switch that hides behind your existing wall plate or sits inside your consumer unit. It lets you control lights, heaters, pumps and motors from an app, a voice assistant or an automation rule, while the ordinary wall switch keeps working. Think of it as a tiny, obedient … Read more
Standing in the lighting aisle of a UK DIY shed, or scrolling Amazon at midnight, you’ll hit the same fork in the road eventually: smart light switch vs smart plug. They both promise the same thing — control your lights from your phone, set schedules, stop leaving lamps blazing while you’re at work — but … Read more
Somewhere in your hallway there’s a light switch that’s been doing the exact same job, unchanged, since the house was built. Flick up, light on. Flick down, light off. It’s reliable, it’s dumb as a post, and — here’s the thing most people don’t realise until they start shopping — replacing it with an in-wall … Read more