>This also rules out smart light switches, as these often need to connect to some kind of cloud, and if that cloud goes down, you could struggle to turn your li

>This also rules out smart light switches, as these often need to connect to some kind of cloud, and if that cloud goes down, you could struggle to turn your lights on. Baloney. None of the smart switches I have ever used/seen stop working without internet/cloud connectivity, in fact some of mine are disconnected right now as I haven't gotten around to reconnecting them to wifi after my last change. This includes switches with bridges (lutron caseta etc), and wifi switches (WeMo, LeGrand, etc). Heck - I set up a Caseta switch in the back of my house with a pico remote without ever connecting it to my bridge (which is in the front of the house and likely won't reach that far without a repeater), yet both the remote and the switch work 100% reliably.