Can’t afford a smart fan or purifier? This smart home hack levels up dumb devices

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Don't throw away your old fans and purifiers yet - they can still compete with smart fans

This includes controlling your fans and purifiers remotely so your home is nice and fresh when you arrive, or reacting to environmental conditions without you needing to step in.

Buying multiple smart fans isn’t exactly in my budget, and annoyingly the Hot+Cool Formaldehyde won’t actually turn on automatically when low air quality or high temperatures are detected. So, to help keep cool, I thought I’d try to smarten up my dumb fan. If you've got a smart fan or purifier that just isn't reactive to air quality changes in your home, that's all you'll need for this retrofit, but for those with fully dumb fans, this is where the second part of this hack comes in - the smart plug.

 

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