[ekidd]

I have a bunch of smart bulbs, and actually, I really like them.

For starters, the Hue bulbs are fairly high quality LEDs. They don't flicker excessively, they distort colors less than cheaper bulbs, and I haven't had one burn out yet. Oh, and the default color is apparently now programmable.

We normally run ours off of old-fashioned switches, with the exception of one or two rooms where the switches are badly positioned and I'm too lazy to reopen the walls.

But even years after installing the bulbs, we still use our phones to override the colors on the bulbs, or set up custom lighting configurations.

The biggest downside is that after a power outage, every light turns on. That's happened once or twice at 2am, and it meant a grumpy search for the nearest phone.

[Hamuko]

>The biggest downside is that after a power outage, every light turns on.

Set your lights to return to the last state after power recovery.

[soneil]

I prefer to have ours default to on. It means the "dumb switch" (as the grandparent puts it) still works as expected, which is really important for .. everyone else in the house.

(It does make outtage recovery inconvenient, but that's much rarer than the day-to-day inconvenience)