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Re:Hue Light Hack by nfriedly on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:45AM (#35817243)
As far as IoT goes, I too am relatively happy with my hue bulbs. In particular I appreciate the fact that they still work if my internet goes down.

However, if I was starting from scratch today, I'd probably just install dimmer switches in the wall and skip the IoT aspect entirely.

Re:Hue Light Hack by ChainOfFools on Thursday May 04, 2023 @07:59PM (#35823722)
There is exactly one device on the market (that I have found) which seems to satisfy both sides of your interests here: a rotary dimmer by a somewhat obscure company called Martin Jerry which functions perfectly well as a dumb dimmer but also can be fully controlled as an iot device.

The only downside (apart from the idiosyncratic physical knob design) is that it's a tuya platform device, but the manufacturer also markets a DIY version which is trivially flashable to open source tasmota or ES32Home, severing the connection to the mothership entirely while retaining all functionality.