You’re ignoring the thing about federal election funds. Is attempting that goal a “waste?” By that logic, in a solidly blue state, voting for any major party candidate is also a waste because you as an individual can’t impact the outcome.

Read Old Man’s War.

Cool, thanks for the details. Avoiding both a cloud dependency and an HA dependency to switch lights on/off makes sense.

Checking those out now. Thank you!

Passing through a USB device might be as easy as adding --device /dev/your/usb/device to your docker run command-line, first making sure the permissions on that device are such that they can be read by the container. (Or use the devices: equivalent if you’re using Compose.)

Awesome, thanks for the tip… Those look great. I have neutral, so that shouldn’t be a problem.

Awesome, that’s good to hear. Do you use the Shelly’s with their stock firmware or have you flashed them with something? And do you find that their Wifi signal is strong enough?

Gotcha, thanks!

Thanks, I’ll check those out! Do you use the HA tplink integration or are they flashed with Tasmota or something?

Nice. I aspire to that level of automation. :D

Interesting. I guess that could work well if the light is fully automation-driven and you rarely need to override its state.

You’re probably right. I am interested though in hearing from folks who have Shelly’s (or similar) paired with dumb switches to see if this is a non-issue for them.