squigish

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Hi all, I would like to ask you to fill in this survey about the use of smart personal assistants in relation to its privacy features in c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

[–] squigish@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I think the answer is that this is what downvotes are for

3 way switched circuit: how to control the lights but keep the outlet hot? in c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

[–] squigish@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The best long term solution is to run wires in the wall. While you're at it, you could install more plugs in the living room.

But if you don't have the budget for that right now, I would get an inovelli blue series ZigBee smart switch and an aux switch, a ZigBee hub like Home Assistant, and some ZigBee smart bulbs.

Using ZigBee bulbs with the Inovelli ZigBee switch will give you really low latency between turning "on" the switch and the light actually turning on. It's almost instantaneous, unlike some cloud based solutions that can take a second or two, and occasionally just fail.