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I don't care about privacy that much. But that's also unrelated to the reason I will never have a light switch that's capable of having software updates.

The functionality I want from a light switch is simple enough that it should be able to be built into a finished product. More complexity means more failure modes.

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Have you checked out Shelly relays? They can run as simply or complicated as you want. No internet required if you just want to trigger it with a schedule or a webhook over the LAN. The basic logic in the webui was enough to let me run my shop air compressor for 1 hour after the trigger button is pressed and with another option enabled, it won't come back on after a power outage.

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