Splitting Your Smart Home After a Breakup Is a Nightmare

Smart lights need to be smarter

Eric Ravenscraft
Debugger
Published in
5 min readFeb 3, 2021

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As smart home devices like speakers, switches, and thermostats become more common, the people who use them must reconcile with complex questions about how to live with them. For example: How do you divide up a smart home after a breakup? It’s not just a question of deciding who owns every lightbulb, but how…

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Eric Ravenscraft
Debugger

Eric Ravenscraft is a freelance writer from Atlanta covering tech, media, and geek culture for Medium, The New York Times, and more.