How to set up a smart switch to power your home (and what to avoid when you do)

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Home automation is a wonderful thing. I love that I can control so much of my life from my smartphone. But let's be honest, this automation also made me lazy -- so lazy that I now resent some of the simplest tasks.

Especially when that task is something as trivial as flipping a switch. Doubly so if some electrician put that switch in an awkward, hard-to-reach spot.

Well, good news: switch flipping is officially a thing of the past for me, thanks to SwitchBot. 

As the name suggests, SwitchBot is a device that presses switches for you. (Yes, we've reached the point in human history where we have robots for button-pushing. What a time to be alive.) 

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And while I ...