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> You can tie it to sensors, like a door ajar sensor to automatically turn on when you open a closet and back off after.

This is very simple to do without wifi. Refrigerators have been doing it a long time.




Well when I can stack my coats in a refrigerator, I'll be sure to let you know. The nice thing is that as an individual you can do everything with a screwdriver on a weekend.


I just put my closet lights on a motion sensor, it was like $10 to do once. No wifi needed.


Nobody said it was necessary. It's significantly more challenging to get the light to turn on based on time of day, or darkness outside, or to dim by changing color temperature without WiFi/Bluetooth/Zigbee/Thread though. Not to mention fun stuff like getting your bathroom exhaust to turn on when you enter the bathroom then off 10 minutes later.

None of this is strictly necessary, of course. But it is a lot of fun.


https://www.lowes.com/pd/Enerlites-Dual-Tech-Humidity-Sensor...

$60, no wifi, it'll do lights and fan, and it'll trigger on humidity as well as person in room.

I'll take that any day over something that needs to rely on MQTT and home assistant.




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