It's not the ability to manually control devices from your phone that is the interesting part. It's the part where you can automate things and create scenes tha

It's not the ability to manually control devices from your phone that is the interesting part. It's the part where you can automate things and create scenes that is. For example, I have my home office in my basement. I have an automation in Home Assistant that when I turn on the Z-Wave light switch at the top of the stairs, it turns on my desk lamp and recessed lighting, and if it is a weekday during work hours, it will send a wake on lan packet to my work computer. Another example, I have a tilt sensor on my garage door, and a contact sensor on the door into the garage, so that when either of those are opened, the main garage lighting turns on.