upstatemike
Senior Member
With the wide adoption of voice assistants like Amazon Echo and Google Home there seems to be a bu surge of Wi-Fi automation devices on the market. These are easy to set up for voice or phone control but one key thing that seems to be missing is the ability to link devices by direct association, there doesn't seem to be any way to program a Wi-Fo switch to work in tandem with another Wi-Fi switch, bulb, or module. This is basic stuff that is commonly done with Insteon or Z-Wave so why not Wi-Fi? I don't see where there is anything about the TCP/IP protocol that would prevent it from being implemented.
Ideal application would be a Wi-Fi switch that you could pair to a handful of Wi-Fi color bulbs in a ceiling fixture. The switch LEDs could be color changing and could sync to the color you have set on the bulbs, Besides the main rocker there could be some discrete set buttons used to set up pairing and program default color and dim level for the switch , maybe using multiple paddle taps to cycle through a couple of color settings you program in.
I'm confused as to why the features on Wi-Fi based automation seems so crude and basic compared to other protocols? Does Wi-Fi direct association exist somewhere and I just missed it?
Ideal application would be a Wi-Fi switch that you could pair to a handful of Wi-Fi color bulbs in a ceiling fixture. The switch LEDs could be color changing and could sync to the color you have set on the bulbs, Besides the main rocker there could be some discrete set buttons used to set up pairing and program default color and dim level for the switch , maybe using multiple paddle taps to cycle through a couple of color settings you program in.
I'm confused as to why the features on Wi-Fi based automation seems so crude and basic compared to other protocols? Does Wi-Fi direct association exist somewhere and I just missed it?