6 Cheap and Easy Ways to Make Your Home Smarter

6 Cheap and Easy Ways to Make Your Home Smarter

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Garage Door

The notoriously hinky garage door openers only seem to work 30 percent of the time, forcing your frustrated button-pressings to stop and start the door midway through its opening process. And let’s not even touch on the issue of losing remotes between the car seats.

No more! There’s now a wide variety of devices that plug into your present garage door opener mechanism to make it “smart,” enabling you to control it via a smartphone app or computer. One highly rated contender, the Iris, runs about $100.

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