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I am dealing with this right now. I am fixing up my house to sell. I moved out of it into a new home a month ago. I disconnected the Internet connection at the
by mcculley 9y ago
I am dealing with this right now. I am fixing up my house to sell. I moved out of it into a new home a month ago. I disconnected the Internet connection at the house I am trying to sell. I have a Wink Relay there and I deleted my account from it before disconnecting the Internet. Now I can't use the physical switches to control the lights they are connected to. The designers of these devices are not thinking at all about the long term use cases.
- maxerickson 9y agoCounterpoint is that buyers aren't either. I think the underlying issue is that people don't see a huge amount of value in a little bit of automation and balk at the prices, so the market consists mostly of buyers that really want to be able to do various automations.
- gwbas1c 9y agoThat's why I haven't bought smart switches. I bought one "smart" lamp timer, and my experience is so bad that I'll never buy another one.
- djrogers 9y agoI've installed some smart switches from both Lutron and Leviton, and both work just fine without an Internet connection. My hue switches also control their hue lights just fine without any internet - although they do need the hue hub to be powered up.