Alternatively, you could simply not have a "smart home" in the first place, saving money, hassle, and having to worry about issues like this.
Which, ironically, is a pretty smart choice.
Alternatively, you could simply not have a "smart home" in the first place, saving money, hassle, and having to worry about issues like this.
Which, ironically, is a pretty smart choice.
A smart home is technology for the sake of technology, not solving a need as such.
The moment you make it clever past this you incur the overheads of the whole system production in the efficiency cycle. That means the manufacture and distribution of a complex computer system.
Mostly they're smart because they save on wiring. For a while I've had all of my living room lighting (ceiling, as well as standard lamps and a table lamp) all Hue so they get turned on and off together. Standalone and useful. I've been experimenting with HA running on a Pi because I want to do a slightly complicated combination of PIR and timing for some outside security lights and it'll be trivial with HA.
My Philips Hue bulb was replaced with a dumb one when it crapped out and I turn it on and off with a telescoping pointy finger that lives next to my bed ;)
Never know what will be normalized in the next generation. Or what will be considered crazy later on.