homeassistant

That's fine, but I'm opposite. When I moved to a different house, smart lighting was the first thing I did, requested by everyone in the family.

Just the fact the light switches are wireless and can be positioned wherever I want then is gold, specially in an older house where things has been moved around so much that the switches locations doesn't make sense anymore.

Specially in the bedrooms, kids and adults like that the magnetic buttons are movable.

Also, the family in the car leaving the house and I notice a light is on - I can just continue driving while we turn it off. And this is just remote control. Even smarter is when the house recognized that everybody left, and I get a notification that some stuff is still in, with a button to turn it off.

The hallway connecting almost every room on the floor has two switches. None of them are near a bedroom or a bathroom. Or in use. A motion sensor and schedule switches the lights between "almost off", "day" and "night". Nobody ever thinks about the light switches, nobody walks around in the darkness or gets blinded at night.

In the living room I have scenes for the TV area.

• Teatime: Slightly dimmed light on the table, brighter light on the wall decorations.
• Board games: Bright light on the table, slightly dimmed light on the walls.
• Movie: No light on the table, very dim light on the walls. Increase brightness when the movie is paused.
• Night: A single bulb on lowest setting, so that one kid can see that there's no monsters while walking by at night.

...etc