While many people don’t talk about the future of tomorrow others have chosen to make the future happen for them today. As you can imagine we are talking about people who have decided to turn their homes into smart homes. Smart homes are extremely efficient at making your life much easier if everything goes according to plan. But for many people, the possible issues are just not worth the hassle when it comes to modernizing in such a gimmicky way. So if you’re planning to turn your home into a smart home you might want to take a look at this list of common technical issues that you might face and see if perhaps these are things you’d rather just not deal with. So let’s get started.

One if not the most common issue when it comes to installing a smart home or at the very least making your home smart by adding a lot of technological tools to it is that more often than not a lot of gadgets simply don’t work together. While this may seem stupid to a lot of people the reality is that this is not a bug it is a feature. What this means is basically that products of the same line or the same company will work together much easier as a selling point. The idea here is of course that the company wants you to purchase every single gadget you need from them instead of choosing and picking from different companies who might have better prices or more appealing aesthetics to what you want. While sometimes there are solutions where you can make them work together other times they are simply incompatible and this causes a lot of smart homeowners headaches.

Another very common issue is of course connectivity issues. This is one of the things that a lot of people have to deal with constantly because the reality is that we live in a world where everything is wireless and everything is connected which might seem like a contradiction but isn’t. But one thing that many people don’t take into account is that wireless connection isn’t magical. The way wireless connection works is that waves go through walls to connect one thing to another. This can become quite an issue if you don’t know where your warriors are going or if you have a fully tiled bathroom. In the same way you would get help with your water heater installation, you should hire professionals to install all of your products that have wireless connection features. This way you can avoid a lot of headaches.

This next issue kind of goes without saying but only applies to certain products. We are of course talking about power and the potential of battery drain. While a lot of products are connected directly to your home’s electricity many require batteries either for the remote or for the devices themselves. This means that you are not only stuck with constantly changing batteries in your devices but you also need to purchase new batteries all the time. It is not as bad if you’re using rechargeable batteries but then you’re stuck on having batteries charging all the time so you can replace them in case of need. These might seem like small things but the reality is that they add up when you have to constantly maintain these mountains that are supposed to make your life easier.

This issue might strike you as a first-world problem but the reality that comes with having a lot of automated systems to make your life easier is that each one of them comes with an app. This means that your phone is going to be clogged with a bunch of different apps one that controls light and one that controls your speaker system and at the end of the day you just won’t know which one to use constantly as you’re trying to close things around you. This kind of brings us back to the first issue because if you buy everything from the same company you might not have this issue but you might also pay a premium price because you’re spending all your money with one company. In a certain way, there’s no way for you to win here unless you fork out the money that is asked of you.

As you can see multiple issues can come from deciding to upgrade your home to a smart home. Some issues are not technical like the many risks of losing your privacy since all of your devices are connected online and to apps and track your data. Many people have felt that it was violated in a way by having all these apps register every habit you have and share them with marketers for example. The choice is of course yours but you should think twice before jumping on the opportunity to upgrade your home to a smart home.