LUTRON Z3-1BRL-WH-L0 Aurora Smart Bulb Dimmer, 1 Count, White

I have Hue bulbs installed throughout my house, and I absolutely love them. However, my home is outfitted with standard wired switches in every room, which can cause a few issues. While voice control is convenient, flipping a light switch when entering a room often feels more natural. Unfortunately, when smart lights are connected to traditional switches, turning the switch off takes the bulbs offline. This makes them unavailable for voice commands, automations, or routines. Worse yet, it disrupts the flow of controlling all the lights in a room—turning the switch back on only reactivates the power, not the smart functionality. This dimmer solves that problem perfectly. It prevents the lights from being accidentally turned off while seamlessly integrating with the existing wall plate. The design is clean and simple, and the installation is straightforward. I explored alternatives like the Hue Dimmer Switch, but it presented a couple of challenges. Using it would require either adding a separate plate alongside my existing switch or rewiring the wall switch to tie the wires together and then installing the Hue Dimmer over it. Both options seemed cumbersome or overly invasive. In contrast, this dimmer offers a much cleaner and more practical solution. There’s also the Hue Wall Switch Module, which serves a similar purpose. However, it requires dismantling the wall switch and connecting wires to achieve functionality, making it more complex to install. Additionally, the Wall Switch Module only provides basic on/off functionality, whereas this Lutron switch offers multiple features, including dimming and switching between scenes. For me, the added versatility of this dimmer makes it the clear winner. If I have one complaint, it’s the price. While I believe the quality and functionality justify the cost, it becomes a bit painful when you need several of these switches throughout the house. A multi-pack—perhaps a 4-pack with a 20% discount—would make it much easier to outfit an entire home without breaking the bank. Overall, this dimmer is a fantastic solution for managing smart lights in a home with traditional switches. It simplifies lighting control, eliminates offline bulb errors, and offers more functionality than other options. While it’s an investment, the convenience and seamless integration make it well worth considering.

I admit that I would love to see these around the $20-30 mark, but at the end of the day, they are a product I'm happy to spend $50 for. When it comes to smart devices in a house, I absolutely love smart lights, but their usefulness tends to break down once you start to factor in other people. I'm happy to tinker with things and set customized routines and triggers without thinking of it, but what about family, friends, or guests? Its something new that they might only temporarily or rarely be exposed to, and the more removed it is from 'flip switch get light' the more annoyed people are likely to get. When it comes to convenience, I've played around with Philips Hue switches before because they get closer to the "standard light switch package", but I haven't found anything more directly effective than this. It first deals with the problem of 'how do people interact with lights' via allowing people to either press the switch to turn it on/off, and allows for people to control a dimmer feature via spinning the dial. But, more importantly, it locks operation of the light switch. I currently live in an apartment so I cannot connect or disconnect certain plugs from a switch, and there are times that I do not want a light switch to be operational - like, for example, if the switch connects to a plug that powers my computer or other devices I expect to stay on. Installation of this over a switch stops that switch from being fiddled with, while still letting easy control of lights. Even when you're not dealing with something that wants/assumes constant power, smart lights losing power can be a bit of a pain in the butt in the first place: Philips Hue has a 'power on' default now (thankfully), but I'm not sure about their competitors. It at least means that you're not going to have strange reactions when lights are powered on, but lights that are off will never respond to a remote command. Locking the switch on means that this isn't an issue, and the ease of operation by anyone who isn't even tech-inclined means that the switch being locked on won't be an issue.

La instalación es muy sencilla y agregarlos al bridge Hue fue muy fácil. Tienen un botón central que prende y apaga la luz y la perilla baja y sube la intensidad de la luz. El botón central se siente frágil, no se presiona parejo. Si lo presionas de arriba, solamente esa parte se presiona y el resto se inclina y pareciera que se va a romper o a salir. Le pondría 4.5 estrellas si se pudiera.

How many switches do you want? How much explaining do you want to do for your house sitter or family that comes over? If people roll their eyes at your smart bulb house, this is a great solution for plain white smart bulbs. Press to turn on and off, spin it on to start at lowest brightness. Great when you don't want MORE switches beside switches, or your wife likes to turn off all the conventional switches and mess with your grand scheme of a robot home. Over-priced at first, but honestly has made a world of difference for the one place i really needed this style of solution - the bathroom. No one wants to mess with stuff in a bathroom, but i also didn't want to be blinded every time i got up at night. More robust than i thought it would be, but I also wouldn't hit it with a hammer or a teenager.

We have a wall switch that controls six hue ceiling light bulbs in the kitchen. The problem is that we’re not always carrying our phones when we go in and out of the kitchen. And, guests don’t know the switch controls smart bulbs so they shut the lights off with the switch and then we have to flick it back on to control the lights with the app again. This Lutron dimmer switch is the perfect solution and it took only seconds to set it up. We can now control the lights from the wall without worrying about guests turning the switch off.