I still turn my lights on with a switch on the wall. I always wondered why people wanted to turn on their lights with an app, but maybe there's some life quality thing I'm totally missing out on?
My personal use case is an older (1979) house with insufficient or poorly placed switch/switched outlet locations and my general dislike of can/LED puck lighting in living spaces.
My kitchen, for example, has 4 separate light circuits for tasks: under cabinet lights, 2 cans with spotlight LEDs over the sink, multiple can lights around the perimeter, and 3 over the kitchen table. They're all on Kasa switches and hooked to Alexa for voice control. So, you can turn on the sink lights to wash dishes without touching anything and lights can be turned on/off in groups no matter where you are standing.
Other living areas use a combo of table and floor lamps at multiple locations/outlets, so it's nice to be able to turn everything on together by room with a voice command. These rooms have a switched outlet, but that's a single location, and in one room, the switch is not positioned well.
You’re missing out on not needing to think about turning on your lights. Come home at 6pm every night after work; lights come on at 5:55pm. Come home at different times of the night; set up a motion sensor to trigger the lights when the door opens or per room. Don’t want to set up a motion sensor? Geofence your house. Seasons changing mean sunset is later; have logic that only turns on lights after sunset. Kids are only allowed to watch tv until 8pm; automate the tv turning off at 8pm. Its limitless what you can do. This is all very easy to do using something like HomeKit. Each day adds minutes back in your life; span that across a lifetime and it makes a difference.
Minutes each day? I spend at most 20 seconds a day switching lights on and off in my house. Setting all that up would probably involve more time than operating my light switches for a lifetime.
