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My rule is to never buy hardware that needs an app to function. It's never once let me down.

If you like different color ambience in your room, you will pretty much need an app. The colored light industry will never make hardware controls for adjusting hue/saturation/contrast.

I don't doubt that you'll get better customization options with apps, but you aren't doomed to a life devoid of color without them.

We've got some colored lighting in the form of plain old LED strips with wired controllers, we've had a couple old fashioned single color bulbs at times, and there are other options like this: https://www.amazon.com/GE-Lighting-93100205-Replacement-Spec...

I'd really like to see something like openrgb (openrgb.org) for light bulbs though.

autoexec, like myself, will therefore choose to not like color ambiances in our rooms.

I've managed to come up with a few app free options, more limited, but still effective and less abusive than an app. I'd make do with a string of Christmas lights if I had to.

That's not true, Zigbee remotes can pair directly to lightbulbs (including Philips Hue) and control the color. Example: https://rgbgenie.com/?product=rgbgenie-rgbw-remote-zigbee

Also, there are tons of cheap colored lightbulbs controlled directly by an infrared remote. Example: https://www.amazon.com/Light-Color-Changing-2700K-White/dp/B...

There are a bunch of like $10 rando lights that come with a remote, including hue and brightness (not contrast or saturation though).

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