I dont see many options for exterior lights on the market. Am I missing something? Thank you
I think most of us have just put a device on the switch rather than trying to find a light with zwave or zigbee built in. I have a number of outside lights but all have the controls at the switch level.
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Iām not as adept so used some switches to solve these situations in my house.
My decking lights which plug into an outdoor socket. For this scenario I have an RGBW micro module (Fibaro) and LED driver mounted inside a small waterproof junction box fixed to the wall next to the socket.
I used a Aeon DSC06106-ZWUS - Z-Wave Smart Energy Switch for these. I plugged into an multi outlet which also has a dusk/dawn and 1/4/6 hr option. Did this first actually and then added zwave a few years later to turn on/off with movement. Left it there since if there is movement this just ignores it during the day without a rule.
My front porch light where the switch back box is too shallow to take a Fibaro module. I just put the module inside the external light fitting instead (got lucky with the fitting, most are too compact to allow this)
Here I use a wemo switch which I bought them when I thought Smartthings worked with them 
I also use a ST motion sensor here and IFTTT to turn on/off.
For my other external light I just leave the switch on and use a LIFX bulb.