• GreyBeard
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    1318 days ago

    Any smart lights I’ve seen always turn on when going from no power to power. It’s a little annoying when the power blinks and half the house lights up, but it means physical switches always work.

    • mosiacmango
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      18 days ago

      Smart lights should be used rarely because they have a failure state. Smart switches are the answer here for most lighting. These are light switches that also have radios in them to connect to zigbee/zwave/matter/whatever to control the switch if the connection is available.

      Lutreon sells high quality, but somewhat expensive ones that work flawlessly.

      • @hikaru755@lemmy.world
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        718 days ago

        I like the color temperature and brightness of my lights responding to the time of day too much in order to go with smart switches over smart lights

      • JokeDeity
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        118 days ago

        Feels like you don’t even understand why people use smart bulbs.

      • GreyBeard
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        117 days ago

        For most people, the thought of replacing an outlet or switch is daunting to say the least. My IKEA smart bulbs are going on 7 years old and still working great.

        I did replace every single outlet and switch in my house when I moved in, but that was before I knew about ZigBee or Zwave, and well before matter existed.

        I don’t feel the need to replace most of my switches and half of my outlets again.