Like, sometimes you just want a good, physical light switch! Lutron seems to have the best: multi-button AND fast/reliable, but the bulbs are inherently dumb (warm light at high noon is weird, cool light in the evening is hospital-y)

@christianselig do you have room behind your switches for smart relays? I use the Sonoff mini zigbee one behind my dumb switches setup as a detached relay (so it never actually cuts power to the smart lights), then automations toggle the smart light when the dumb switch toggles the relay. If the lights are also ZigBee-based and you have HA running your automations, it’s 100% bullet-proof as long as your mesh is healthy. I wish Thread was as good.

@fichek You haven't had good experiences with Thread? It's been rock solid for me so far. That's an interesting approach though

@christianselig well to be fair my Matter over Thread devices are all ran via HomeKit so that’s likely the source of most if not all issues. I haven’t had a single unresponsive accessorry ever on my HA-ran zigbee network. Both networks have between 80-90 devices and the mesh was designed with a lot of thought (I was basically designing my house around the accessories I was gonna use).