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Is this an intuitive interface for anyone? It looks incredibly frustrating. If I want to turn on a lamp, I want to turn on a lamp, not spend hours configuring the optimal way to navigate to a lamp rpg style (north east north north south).

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It's pretty simple. Four buttons for four devices. Each button can toggle a device. You can also hold a button to switch to that button's app, giving you four apps with four buttons each. So music app has volume controls and play/pause and next track. Lighting controls has scenes and hue/brightness controls.

There's no multi-touch or sequences to memorize. Just the four buttons and the four apps.

That sounds simpler than what I was imagining, but you just described a sequence to memorize.

i would expect most folks to just use each one as a simple toggle. I know that's what i was intending when i pondered getting this.

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