I can't understand people that want to wire up every aspect of their home to big tech cloud companies. There are plenty of options for self-hosted smart home setups.
So you can do "Siri turn all lights off" or whatever, and still be able to turn the lights on and off if the Internet is down.
Still on the fence if it's worth the cost.
Then I started thinking, what sort of switch is programmatically controllable, uses open standards has a large number of ports is vendor interchangeable. and it hit me. a POE ethernet switch.
Now I just have to find a source of 48V leds.
hashtag: only_half_joking.
I primarily use the remote to turn on light switches from across the room. It only saves a couple of steps but the seconds add up. The big one is turning on porch light at night while standing on porch. I have turned off left on lights on way to airport. I have also set up routine to turn on lights in evening while I’m away.