Modern Home Grid publishes setup and troubleshooting guides for smart home hardware: lighting, security, energy monitoring and voice assistants. Seven guides and one buying checklist. That is the whole site.
How the guides are written
Every figure in a guide points back to whoever published it. When we say a Nest camera uses under 34 kWh a year, that is Google's own environmental reporting. When we say a Hue Bridge handles 50 lights and 12 accessories, that is Philips. When we list six router settings worth changing, those are quoted from CISA's published guidance, not from our opinion about security.
The reason is simple: most smart home writing repeats figures that nobody can trace, and some of it repeats figures that stopped being true years ago. Amazon closed the interface that let list apps sync with Alexa in July 2024, and a great deal of what is published about Alexa lists still describes the arrangement that no longer exists. Citing the source is what lets you tell the difference.
What we do not do
- We do not review products. We have not tested the hardware, so we do not publish verdicts, scores or star ratings on it.
- We do not publish best-of tables assembled from other people's reviews.
- We do not publish prices. They move constantly and a page of stale numbers is worse than no numbers.
- We do not cover categories we have nothing useful to say about. There is no robot vacuum section and no thermostat section, because we have not done that work yet.
What the guides do instead is explain how a thing works and what decides whether it will work in your house — the specification that is not on the front of the box, the wiring assumption nobody mentions, the setting that causes the problem.
How the site is paid for
Two ways, and both are visible on the page.
Advertising. The site shows ads through Google AdSense. Advertisers have no involvement in what the guides say.
Affiliate links. Where a guide points at a category of product, the link goes to Amazon and carries an affiliate tag. If you buy after following one, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Full detail is on our affiliate disclosure page, and every page containing such a link carries a notice at the top.
Affiliate links do not change what a guide recommends. The gear page is a checklist of what to look for, not a ranking, and it deliberately sends you to a search rather than to a single product we have picked.
Corrections
If a figure here is wrong, or a manufacturer has changed something we describe, tell us and we will fix the page rather than leave it. Use the contact form.