What Reddit Says About Smart Lighting Assistant Apps

With their app or Alexa, hue and temp controls. Decent price and easy to set up. ... I use the Govee bulbs. Wifi and bluetooth enabled. I regularly turn them off/on via Google assistant and it's own app.

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We have a Hubitat in our house that runs our various smart controls, but they’re all Zwave or Zogbee and designed to work on multiple platforms. ... Any hub can aggregate but home assistant is the right one.

... Based on Zigbee, my recommendation would be: Iolloi dimmer switches Philips hue bulbs in GU10 and E27 Aqara is a bit hit or miss Sonoff in general okay, like their simple switches and motion sensor.

I don't want to spend my life troubleshooting why my lights don't turn on. Ideally, low latency. What is the current best in class platform and product for this? ... For switches I like/use and generally recommend Zooz or Inovelli on z-wave.

Btw. the Wiz app went unresponsive multiple times while the lights still react fine in home assistant and its automations. ... I have 4 Wiz plugs I initially purchased and 20 Tapo plugs I bought later and both are reliable but I prefer the Tapo app because it's objectively better, more user-fri...

If you have more time than money, look into Home Assistant. It should give you a lot more options with parts that can speak to each other through Home Assistant. I have one Lutron remote hooked up to every light (Hue, Wiz, Tuya smart plugs) ...

Nanoleaf has matter over thread downlights and lightbulbs that you can buy matter over thread lights switches for(2 smart buttons + volume & power). The Nanoleaf app is good, but I prefer to set them up to work with home assistant. So far it's been flawless.

You want https://www.home-assistant.io/ and automations. Homeassistant can incorporate devices from every platform and your automations can talk across all of them. ... Smartlife is the tuya wifi ecosystem. Lots of controllers hook into the Smartlife cloud service (Apple homekit, homeseer, hubitat, ...

ZigBee and Home Assistant solve this problem. You can connect everything through a local coordinator on a raspberry pi and have tons of control. It's more of a project than just unboxing some stuff and connecting an app to the hardware, but it does offer good "smart" alternatives to u...