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Grumpy_Git
I'm becoming jaded.
My Google Hub that I was using as a bedside clock / alarm / radio has slowly been misbehaving. The alarms wouldn't always fire, the brightness became a bit random (bright in the middle of the night, or so damn dark I couldn't see the time), the "listen to music whilst falling asleep and then turn off after 1 hour" stopped turning off.
So my new alarm clock is this: https://braun-clocks.com/collections/digital-clocks/products/bc09-digital-alarm-clock-white
I feel like I went too far on the smart home (absolutely everything) and am slowly walking back the more fragile and silly things.
The most fragile and silly thing, voice control and multi-purpose smart devices.
Everything that is single purposed, i.e. lights, heating, appliances, network, doorbell, etc are all doing brilliantly at their function.
But the multi-purpose "this device does all these things"... those seem to be the ones that degrade the soonest and misbehave the most.