I recently replaced most of the light switches in my home with TP-Link Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Switches — because it’s pretty damn cool to ask Alexa to turn off the lights, and that happened to be a cheap and reliable way to do it.
But TP-Link just announced a new switch that does so much more. It’s got a built-in voice assistant, with its own microphones and speaker. (Weirdly, TP-Link couldn’t say which assistant is built-in, though the company implied it’d be Amazon Alexa or Google.) It’s got a motion sensor to turn on and off the lights without me even asking. Hell, there’s a built-in nightlight, and of course it plays music.
And because they’ve got speakers, microphones and buttons and you’re probably going to buy at least two of them,...
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