Re:The unbearable fussiness of the smart home
by Terretta on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:41PM
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> Sure, but how do you turn the lights on when the power's out and the router is down?
Taking this as joke as one doesn’t often turn on lights when power’s out …
But I used Caseta in a home with a generator since the Lutron light switches and dimmers are physical switches that happily work without any smarthome features.
Unplug your hub and they all work except for the ones that don’t get wired (the ones that are their remote, just stuck on a wall).
Pretty much the top selling point of Caseta for me, was working like normal switches. Gravy is how much more responsive than Hue or similar.
Taking this as joke as one doesn’t often turn on lights when power’s out …
But I used Caseta in a home with a generator since the Lutron light switches and dimmers are physical switches that happily work without any smarthome features.
Unplug your hub and they all work except for the ones that don’t get wired (the ones that are their remote, just stuck on a wall).
Pretty much the top selling point of Caseta for me, was working like normal switches. Gravy is how much more responsive than Hue or similar.