![]() I have an outside Garage light that is LED on a switch. I think all our is the best solution and you can use any light bulbs you want. ![]() With a switch, you can use the app or your voice or anyone and just operate the switch like always. But for a normal bulb? If you turn the bulb off with the app or your voice, you can’t turn it on with the switch. If you want one that changes to different colors, OK, I get that for that reason. Why would you need a smart bulb on top of that when you can just use a cheap LED bulb? Do you have an outlet that is up high where the bulb is not going to get hit? So I just think if you have a Homekit outlet and a Lamp holder to plug into it. Besides the PoE 5MP cameras all around the outside of my house Which is my Home Security while I’m at work. I have the Ecobee 4 so he can easily adjust the home temp since he’s retired and so home most of the time. With much better light, he can better see where he is going and not trip over anything. Sometimes, not lately with the whole Covid thing, but he would go out and visit some friends and come back and be dark out. Much better light in the garage, espeally at night. That’s one of the biggest improvements I’ve made for my Dad who is 73 and lives with me at my house. Or use the normal Remotes and the light still goes on/off with the door. They are LINKED and so I can just push the garage door button on the wall and the light goes on/off with the door. The best thing is I don’t even have to use Siri or Voice control. I can lift my wrist (I have a Apple Watch, no need to say Hey Siri!) say Close Garage and the door closes and the south garage lights go off. So I can just lift my wrist and say Open Garage and the garage door starts to open and the south garage lights come on. In fact using Apple’s HOME app, I have my south garage lights linked to my Garage Door opener when is Homekit supported. Then I have my North Garage lights and South Garage lights. So if you check the status immediately after asking Google Assistant to open or close it, you may receive an inaccurate answer.If you’re using a Homekit Smartplug, why would you even need a smart bulb? In my Garage with all my T8 fluorescent tubes, I just use a couple of Homekit Smart Switches. This is because the camera uses multiple frames to determine if the door is open or closed. Your garage door controller needs at least 15 seconds to update its status.After telling Google Assistant to close/open my door, it still tells me the same status.While you cannot stream the view of your garage door to a Google device, you can still check your camera view via the Wyze app. It is not a camera that you view with Google Assistant, but a door that you open/close with Google Assistant. No, because although the garage door controller has a camera attached, it is a garage door controller. ![]()
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