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Smart light switches
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2016–2024), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Smart light switches, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Z-Wave relay setup adds a noticeable delay before the light turns on2024-02-12
- People can't work out how to turn lights on or off, and motion-activated lights switch off unexpectedly2023-01-20
- Smart switches use buttons that are worse to operate than a plain physical switch2022-05-04
- Can't feel the switch position or confirm its state without looking2022-05-04
- Too many unlit buttons are hard to find and use in the dark2016-08-22