Logitech’s Pop is the Solution for Smart Home Chaos
Smart home technology offers a lot of potential to make things generally easier, but in practice, it can add a lot of complexity and confusion to a person’s life. Logitech’s new Pop Home Switch tries to reverse the trend, delivery light-switch level simplicity for even the most sophisticated smart home setup.
17 August 2016
| Lacey Glave
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Tech Crunch
Smart home technology offers a lot of potential to make things generally easier, but in practice, it can add a lot of complexity and confusion to a person’s life – especially if you really dive in.
Logitech’s new Pop Home Switch tries to reverse the trend, delivery light-switch level simplicity for even the most sophisticated smart home setup. And it succeeds, turning connected home workflows into concerts you conduct, instead of noisy, confusing conflicts you have to endure.
Pop’s clear-eyed simplicity avoids any potential pitfalls, and has resulted in a smart home setup I finally feel comfortable with.
Installing the hub involves only opening the app and plugging a small (by hub standards) brick directly into an available power outlet, and then following steps provided directly in the app itself.
You connect the hub to your Wi-Fi network, it scans for compatible smart home devices (all of mine worked, though I had to add my Harmony hub manually to properly import my home theater activities and devices).
With everything automatically detected, it was easy to mix and match their states and activities and then assign those to specific Pop buttons.
Logitech’s new Pop Home Switch tries to reverse the trend, delivery light-switch level simplicity for even the most sophisticated smart home setup. And it succeeds, turning connected home workflows into concerts you conduct, instead of noisy, confusing conflicts you have to endure.
Pop’s clear-eyed simplicity avoids any potential pitfalls, and has resulted in a smart home setup I finally feel comfortable with.
Installing the hub involves only opening the app and plugging a small (by hub standards) brick directly into an available power outlet, and then following steps provided directly in the app itself.
You connect the hub to your Wi-Fi network, it scans for compatible smart home devices (all of mine worked, though I had to add my Harmony hub manually to properly import my home theater activities and devices).
With everything automatically detected, it was easy to mix and match their states and activities and then assign those to specific Pop buttons.
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