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It depends on your setup. My last apartment had fancy light fixtures with esoteric bulbs and old wiring. Caseta was the right choice there. My new apartment h
by bsimpson 2y ago
It depends on your setup.
My last apartment had fancy light fixtures with esoteric bulbs and old wiring. Caseta was the right choice there.
My new apartment has a kitchenette with proprietary LED lights, so I've migrated my Caseta system there. However, the living room and the bedroom don't have any built-in lighting at all - just some lightswitches hardwired to control certain outlets. I've circumvented the switches and replaced them with a Hue Wall Switch Module: a little transmitter that takes the analog circuit switch and converts it to a digital Zigbee event. This allows me to put lamps with Zigbee bulbs wherever I like and still control them with the built-in wall switch.
I know Zigbee bulbs can end up turning themselves on after a power outage, and I'm sure that can be annoying. However, there are some scenarios (like mine) where permitting the digital rough edges ultimately gives you a better solution than relying on whatever arbitrary decisions the electrician made.