hi,

I recently bought a new house (2 story, ~2600sqft, built in '97). I already installed an EcoBee (ran a new 5-conductor wire from the furnace to the thermostat location so I had a “C” wire), I got a shelly relay working for my garage door opener, have good wifi coverage everywhere via hardwired Unifi APs, got a Kasa light strip for some funky ambient lighting in the living room. I’ve already installed Home Assistant on a spare RPi I had laying around.

with Black Friday/cyber Monday coming up, it seems like a good time to invest in some other smart-stuff, so I’m looking for some input.

I have three younger kids who hit light switches all the time. I have a couple of rooms in the house where I want to be able to change light color, or at least dim lighting.

from what I’ve read, you don’t want to mix smart switches with smart bulbs. I’m not really seeing a good alternative to this when you have a partner/kids that won’t be using an app/tablet for turning the lights on and off when the run into a room.

in my thinking, it seems like being able to re-enable a switch because it’s smart would be the right move here - right? or maybe an offering from Shelly?

I got a 3 pack of Kasa switches to mess around with, and just saw that there are “Kasa smart actions”, but it looks like those are limited to three per account or something. can I do something similar in Home Assistant? (I wasn’t able to find anything after a quick googlin’).

thank you.