Lol Trust me I know what you mean! 36 A19 color bulbs and 9 LIFX BR30s with infrared ($80 a pop) and 6 LIFX minis (cheapest of em all). Now I have to purchase 7 of the new Hue E12 (candelbra) colored bulbs to complete everything. Expensive as hell, but the good news is, not a single bulb failure to date…knock knock…
Sounds great… and it’s a stand-alone button with no wiring required? Asking because the reason I didn’t get it is because in the photo it appears to be the kind that goes over an existing light switch. No light switch in this room, just 3 lamps. No in-wall wired light switches nor lighting at all. It’s gotta be a button I can slap on the wall. If so that’s a winner.
I see your point. If I wasn’t already 15+ bulbs into Cree, I’d probably take the plunge and switch just for the time savings :-). I’ll admit right now I am hitting the point where it’s becoming silly to spend so much time testing and returning buttons when I could be ripping out carpet, re-hanging doors and painting garages…
The Sylvania can be standalone, used on a table, or put over a wall switch. It’s battery operated, no wires. You would have to mount it to the wall some way, as you can see from the pictures it’s pretty big.
In general, just means you buy a cheap no contract android phone and never activate it. It will still work with your Wi-Fi so apps will still work with it, including the flic app.
If you mean specifically, Walmart always has one or two models under $25, which ones they are vary literally from week to week.
So you leave it plugged in at home logged into your Wi-Fi and you pair your Flics to that.
You can use the flic with SmartThings through the free IFTTT service very easily.
There is a way to take IFTTT out of the equation and catch the flic app on your phone, but it’s very technical and a lot more work to set up.
As I said, we really like the form factor on the flic buttons and we do use them in our house. But the Sylvania device will pair out of the box with SmartThings and should work very easily. So if you like the look and feel of that one, I would definitely choose that one over the flic.
Here’s a flic at my house. This is at nose height for my service dog and knee height for me ( i’m in a wheelchair with limited hand function), and it’s a nice soft touch which is good for both of us.
Is the back of the Sylvania flush or flat that it can easily be slapped on the wall like the Flic? I see the pic of it on the table and over a light switch, but think she just wants to slap it on the wall itself (no light switches) be done with it and go paint a garage or two.
It comes with a back plate, but I’ve only ever seen it used as a table top remote and that has little tiny feet on it. I don’t know if you can take those off when you put it on the wall.
If you want something that looks more like a regular switch but that you can velcro on the wall, you could try the aspire rf9500. It costs more than the sylvania remote but I think it looks better.
Another community member recently added the rf9500.
Respectfully, every single device discussed so far in this thread is also on that FAQ list. Plus at least a dozen more. I understand your frustration in not being able to find the perfect button, but the community has worked pretty hard to keep that list up-to-date and comprehensive. So I’m not sure what you were expecting, but we can’t list devices that don’t exist.
Aesthetically this one to me is the most pleasing to look at and just a simple flat switch smacked up on the wall. This one has my vote for what you are looking for. JMO
Yep this will work! Although I’ve seen quite a few people now comment on it’s appearance. I’ll see how one looks when it comes in. It doesn’t look so bad in the photos… but I live in a fixer upper soooo maybe any switch looks good
Here’s an update on ST button-testing extravaganza:
Iris button: cancelled the order after the wave of “yea this is crap” came in (TY ST community)
Lutron remote switch: As @JDRoberts said it would, not ST Compatible without it’s own ($189) bridge. Nope. Still a little bitter about the misleading product desc, but I should’ve researched more before buying.
Aeon Wallmote: Ding ding, we have a winner for a mere 3x the price of the former 2. This thing is pretty cool. Slick looking, and it never occurred to me that it’d be beneficial to have a switch that guests can pop off the wall and set on the nightstand to turn off bedroom lamps at bedtime (especially since it’s important that I discourage them from using the lamp’s own switches, which render the remote button solution useless).
Sylvania - That comes in tomorrow. I have another room with no light switch (yea… this is a scalable problem!) to try it in.