I recently, maybe foolishly, replaced our apartment lights with some Matter bulbs. They’re mostly great, but yesterday the SO needed to turn on a light and it was such a chore for her. It’s had me thinking how I can make it work without voice. I’m guessing I’ll need a whole new setup, which sucks. I considered making a fancy Siri Shortcut to help her control things from her phone. Maybe a smart button on top of the switches? I’m a bit confused, if I’m being honest.
Any ideas on this are appreciated!
This. Smart switches, dumb bulbs. Or smart switches and smart bulbs if lighting your house like a disco is important to you.
But since you have the bulbs already: As I understand, Home Assistant is working on support for Matter. (It’s in beta) HA also has cloudless voice command functionality available. Something like a last-gen Raspberry Pi could get this up and running PDQ.