Advice on having a home you can control with a remote

Kya deLongchamps doesn’t want to depend on ‘the internet of things’ but has sound advice if you want an automatic home you can communicate with remotely. 

Let’s face it — regardless of advances in smart house technology, we remain the superior intelligence in our homes.

If you forget to put a load of mouldering washing on and go out, there’s no software, app or device that’s going to clank over on little metal legs, lights blinking — load the machine and switch it on.