I've never felt terribly inconvenienced by manually flipping light switches, pushing buttons on the remote, or fiddling with the thermostat. Voice control of th

I've never felt terribly inconvenienced by manually flipping light switches, pushing buttons on the remote, or fiddling with the thermostat. Voice control of these things introduces many new points of failure and aggravations without delivering an order-of-magnitude improvement to my daily life. I just don't find it worthwhile. The day I can say "Google, fold the laundry" or "Alexa, make me a sandwich" and it actually does it, then I'll happily buy in to a smart home ecosystem. That's an order-of-magnitude improvement! Until then, I'm OK with the analog stuff that lasts for ages and breaks in fairly easy-to-understand-and-fix ways.