Q: I have a light set in my backyard that is plugged into an electrical outlet that has two silver flaps to cover the plugs. The system works fine except that I get very nervous when it rains. My fear ...

My smart home extends to both my front and back yards. But I have only one weather-protected duplex outlet in each location, which isn’t enough to accommodate all the smart devices I need to plug in.

I guess the person servicing this installation thought that wrapping the whole thing in electrical tape would simply make all the problems disappear. But then I showed up with my camera and exposed ...