[vel0city]

The part that wears out from cycling often is the ballast of the bulb. I imagine these smart lights are in the bulb's ballast, so sending the "off" command isn't de-energizing the ballast of the lightbulbs.

If you were doing it on a smart light switch that was feeding 120V to the ballasts I do imagine it would impart some additional wear and tear to the bulbs. I'm not sure how much additional wear and tear it would be on an LED, I know the main thing that wears out on a florescent is the starting circuit which needs to bring the energy of the bulb enough to start the arc which wears out over time.

[stavros]

It's very odd to me that bulbs don't come in two parts: Ballast and LED. That way, we wouldn't have to keep buying and throwing away the perfectly good part when the other one broke.

[murderfs]

Ballasts are only needed on fluorescent lamps (because they have negative resistance, so if you run one by itself without a current limiter, it'll consume more and more current until it explodes)

[stavros]

Ah, then I meant the AC/DC converter that supplies 12V to the LEDs.