I have looked and looked and found many half-solutions, but what I would love is some kind of magic hardware that can be wired into a standard bulb lamp with socket switch/chain to make it smart without the built-in switch breaking the smartness.
By breaking smartness I mean shutting off power to the smart device or shutting off power to the bulb so it can't be remotely turned on. The latter is how most smart plugs work. The former is how most smart bulbs work.
I want something like a wire-in bulb socket like the one pictured but with the switch wired to a zigbee relay like a sonoff zbmini L2 so it registers simply as a toggle.
There are some small modules similar to this like the aforementioned sonoff zbmini l2 and those zigbee/wifi socket adapters so maybe I could hack something together.
or do I just gotta do a Kickstarter so everyone can enjoy this product?
My dumb humans may tolerate something like this if I wire the socket to "always on". I can just stick it to the side of the lamp/socket where it's intuitive to press instead of the default lamp's control.
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