Physical control of hue lights with smart things

[JDRoberts]

Lots of complaints, including on the Quirky site, that the Tapt marketing misrepresents what it does. (I suspect they ran into the Lutron patent.) and that it only works with GE bulbs, not Phillips Hue.

https://www.quirky.com/shop/890

One possible alternative for some use cases is the SmartenIT 3 toggle switch. I am using this with SmartThings to control, among other things, some zigbee light bulbs.

Note that SmartenIT sells this toggle as a " remote," not a light switch, which technically avoids the Lutron patent.

I don’t have a Hue bridge, though, so I don’t know what happens with that.

And the SmartenIT isn’t load bearing, so you would have to first put dumb bulbs into a smart fixture.

But it will definitely provide toggle control for some smart bulbs, which is the main point of this topic.

Battery Operated 3 Toggle Switch for wallmount or table top use (SmartenIT ZBWS3B) [DEPRECATED: STOPPED WORKING IN 2018]

This code stopped working with the 2018 version of the SmartThings app. The device should no longer be considered compatible. Yes, Virginia, there is a battery operated toggle switch that looks like a regular switch and can be used to change modes, run Hello Home Actions, or toggle one or more devices on and off! It does have 3 toggle “buttons” instead of just 1, which some people will see as a negative, but it’s a very nice device. It can be mounted on the wall anywhere, it does not require any wiring. Or it can just lie flat on a table. It’s zigbee, but because SmartThings supports both zigbee and zwave, that doesn’t matter, you can still use it to control any of the devices you control through SmartThings. You can also easily feel the separations between the three toggles, …