@christianselig Ah right, sorry. Yes, if you want to keep your Hue lamps then it probably makes more sense to get smart switches that turn off the Hue via signal. Shelly makes sense if you want to keep dumb lamps but be able to control them both from a physical switch and HA.

@christianselig There are devices called Shelly that can convert your regular switch into smart switches. The "real" switching happens inside the Shelly which can be triggered from the old switch (that connects to the Shelly) or via e.g. Home Assistant. This way you can keep your switches and lights.

@christianselig Using a local protocol like Zigbee, Matter/Thread help a lot with latency. Home Assistant helps a lot to make everything local and the Philips Hue lights can easily join the local zigbee network without the need to go through the Philips cloud.

@skippy @timonus @trmnl Link to plugin (unfortunately their plugin page needs an account): https://usetrmnl.com/recipes/72396/install