When the power goes out, most people worry about the lights. But if you've built a smart home, you lose something deeper—the invisible intelligence that knows when you walk in, adjusts your temperature while you sleep, and watches your doors around the clock. This episode explores how to keep your home's brain alive during blackouts, from small backup batteries tucked behind furniture to whole-home systems that power entire circuits. Whether you're protecting a simple hub-and-router setup or a complex mesh network spanning dozens of sensors, you'll learn how to design resilience that works silently in the background.

• Your smart home's brain needs power even when your lights don't. The hub that controls your automations and the router that connects everything are like the central nervous system of your home—if they go dark, nothing e ...