There are rooms in a house or apartment that are difficult to automate, because there are people there all the time, spend a lot of time, sometimes even sleep, it can be an office, a living room, a bedroom or a children's room.

If, for example, in the bedroom, of course, you can measure some scenarios of work, then in principle, for example, in the nursery, it will be very difficult to do this, it will be difficult to explain how what works, what is responsible for what, what can be done, what can not be done.

To control the light in such rooms, they use different methods, these are also different night lights, which can be turned on either remotely, or turned off remotely, or you can set a timer so that they turn on after a while, or turn off after a while, you can do different functions related to turning on the night light by movement, if you start walking in the room so that they turn on automatically and then turn off automatically after a while.

But also, if this is required in order to light up the room, of course, you can do it so that they don't turn on brighter or dimmer if everyone is already asleep, so as not to wake anyone up. Often, different table lamps are also used in such rooms. These can be smart lamps with different light modes of different types, that is, warm or cold, or some kind of colored lighting could be done.

Often the light in the room is also forgotten to turn off, left on and of course it would be nice to have a remote control function, I basically have this option sometimes I even turn on the light in the room or I can blink the light in the room in order to let you know that you need to go to the next room or go or you can also dim the lights if it's already evening and you need to somehow show that it's time to go to bed.

I also use one chandelier in my room, it basically only works in one mode, but there are wires for two, but I did not change this chandelier into two modes, so that as before it was possible to turn on half of the bulbs on this chandelier with one button or the other half with another button, well, just use this one a chandelier is like turning it on or off, but it is used very rarely, so in principle there are no problems, and the light bulbs there that are LED, they are not very bright and of course there is no longer so easy to fully illuminate the room with such a chandelier.

Well, of course, it would be nice if there was also some kind of dimming mode for this chandelier, but we practically do not sell such switches, at least they may not be cheap, and therefore I do not plan to put such a mode and such a switch yet, and it is usually not very convenient to control such switches.

it takes a long time to explain how and what turns on, how it turns off, how dimming mode turns on and it will certainly not always work correctly if this dimmer is still touch-sensitive, in general, the touch switches themselves are very convenient and create more problems when using them than just push-button switches.

As a replacement, you can simply put different smart bulbs in this lamp or even hang some smart lamp instead of a chandelier, it can also work over wi-fi, it usually also has a remote control that allows you to turn on different lighting modes, and in principle even some have music that you can listen to via Bluetooth there with phone, but such lamps they certainly do not work very clearly, that is, there if the usual switch is on when you turn on this switch, this lamp turns on in the old mode, but if you quickly turn it on and off, the mode changes, this is not always convenient and of course in the nursery, where children can quickly turn on and off or run around, it will be quite difficult to explain what is responsible for what and how to do it, but if the remote control is lost, then of course many functions will not be available in principle, of course you can also control it from the phone, put a separate application, but sometimes it doesn't work well there at all, especially if you need to make a Bluetooth connection, then of course there will be a problem at all, it will be difficult to connect several more phones to it at the same time.

Of course, you can also use wireless switches instead of physical switches, I basically have such switches separately in almost all rooms, it can be both radio frequency working and zigbee switches, but of course it's not very convenient anyway, first of all, there is a delay in switching on and you need to explain how to use these switches, but and in fact, I do not even use them, the fact that they are on every table in this room and on every nightstand, in principle, you can normally use it.

It is quite difficult to remember all these buttons on these different switches, that is, you will either need to make them the same type I have so in principle, for example, several switches are also made in one room, they are all set up in the same mode, that is, they will all work the same way there, so that you don't have to get confused and look for which mode on which button, and on which switch is configured.

In general, it is convenient when you have already gone to bed and do not want to get up and you need to turn off the light remotely, you can turn it on or off via a wireless remote control, remotes are different, sometimes just like switches, sometimes buttons, sometimes even multi-button like a regular device remote, you can still buy some kind of switch from Aqara which has a lot of different buttons, different modes, that is, there is a multiple pressing of buttons and holding different buttons, of course there can be different scenarios, even the remote control from aqara can generally, you can separate it from the base and then you can either magnetize it or just put it in any place, this is of course convenient, but you can also go in from the phone and turn off some light, but this is not always convenient, you need to take the phone, if it is on charge, then it will not be comfortable there either.

Well, or you can even put a smart speaker in the room there and just configure it so that the voice can turn off the light and turn on some mode, so that the light turns off after a while.

Automation in a smart home should be useful and create additional comfort, but sometimes everything goes wrong… The reasons for this, and how to configure everything, see on my channel.