02/22/2026
🧠 Home Lab in Action
Upgrading a standard light switch → into a smart one.
Old mechanical switch.
No automation. No load monitoring.
Installing Shelly Plus 1PM inside a standard electrical box
and turning a simple lighting point into part of a smart home system.
What changes:
• smartphone control
• real-time power monitoring (W / V)
• automation & scheduling
• remote access
• physical switch still works
No fancy touch panels.
No wall demolition.
Just correct wiring and clean integration.
Next step — integration with Siri or Alexa,
so a regular light becomes part of a full ecosystem.
Smart homes don’t start with expensive systems.
They start with smart engineering.
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