Smart home always on "wired" Switches?

[MarkTr]

How about just protecting the switches?

Out of Sync Bulbs: Manual Switches; How to combat that?

I use switch guards to prevent my wife from turning off a switch by force of habit and for rooms that have a dumb a switch but also have smartbulbs. I use a button device such as the cooper aspire RF9500 when I absolutely need a wall switch with smartbulbs. toggle type switches: or decora type: for controlling smart bulbs, you can also hardwire them always hot and use these or many others: