Smart Lamp Bulbs or smart Switch?

[lyric galleon]

I currently have the lamps from Lidl livarno home. Unfortunately they are way to dim for me. I do not change the warmth of the colour of the white of the lamps often so I do not really need to have smart lamp bulbs. But I often turn them on manually in the evening so they do not turn on by themselves in the morning. Someone told me there is like a presence detector? What would you do? But dumb bulbs and make them smart with a switch or have smart bulbs but better ones than the Lidl?

[hardy summit]

To be fair, I am pretty sure there are better bulbs then ones from Lidl. however if you just want basic on/off I am a fan of using a relay behind a standard light switch to make it smart. This way it mostly looks/feels/works like a normal dumb setup. I use ones from Shelly for this purpose.

[lyric galleon]

And yiou use dumb bulbs then right?

[hardy summit]

Yeah.

[lyric galleon]

Which ones do you use? I have the socket GU10

[summer void]

I personally like thirdreality zigbee bulbs

[hardy summit]

for dumb stuff, I don't overally have a preference. a lot of it tends to be whatever way there beforehand.

[midnight viper]

When you say lamps are you talking about a lamp that plugs into a wall outlet? Or are they hardwired?

If you are talking about plug-in lamps then you can get a smart switch to do the on/off fairly cheap and use the bulb of your choice. In a situation where you don't need colour changing/dimming i'd do that.

If they are hardwired then bulb vs getting an electrician to put a smart device in the wall is a different answer. Go the quality smart bulb. You can easily get them up to 1000lm.

I have a similar situation where the lights get turned off at the switch all the time. I am working on a physical control panel to toggle the smart lights to eliminate the need of switching the off at the wall.

[lyric galleon]

Yeah i think that would be the perfect solution for my problem. How are you going to do that?

[lyric galleon]

They are plug in with gu10 socket so i can replace them easily

[midnight viper]

My current proof-of-concept is a Shelly Wave i4 DC (12v powered with 4 digital inputs). I bought it to test z-wave but (long story short) the z-wave antenna is non functional at the moment.
For cost I may do it with some cheap ESP32s in the long run unless z-wave impresses me.

[midnight viper]

I didn't word the question perperly.
When you say lamp, do you mean

or

[lyric galleon]

This one

Standard light switch