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I am a bit tempted to upgrade my apartment's lighting system from the old and rather primitive 433 MHz-based system that I currently use.
Today, there are many fairly cheep home automation solutions that are based on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and probably other technologies as well (I don't know much about this but have heard about things like Zigbee). The best known lighting solution is probably Philips Hue, but there are many others as well.
But every solution I look at seems to be controlled by a smartphone app, and I don't own a smartphone, have never done so, and I might never do so. I simply don't like smartphones. I adamantly avoid everything related to smartphones and social media.
Instead, I would like to control the system using a combination of dedicated remote controls and my computer. (In my world, a "computer" is, almost by definition, a Windows NT-based desktop computer.) Although I would love a native Win32 desktop app to control the system, I would be perfectly happy with a web-based interface that I can access using a web browser on the local network.
Are there such systems? So far, I have not found a single product that explicitly mentions a web-based interface (and, of course, much less a native Win32 desktop application).
So, do I have any options, or do I have to stick with my old 433 MHz-based radio system? --Andreas Rejbrand (talk) 17:59, 5 December 2020 (UTC)