Or it’s completely and totally unnecessary, which covers a surprising number of items in the history of gadgets.
Maaaadneeesss! There are some things for which a smart-phone remote would be a useful backup, but dedicated remotes are a must for me for things like that.
See, I don’t understand that, no matter how much I rack my brain trying to imagine situations where that would be useful to me. But then I don’t have lighting systems, I have lights. I walk into, or am working in, a room/area, I turn them on, I walk out/stop working in that area, I turn them off. My home has a lot of overlapping lights so I can turn on the ones that are most useful based on what I’m doing at that moment - automating or scheduling them would be the opposite of useful for me.
