Sure, lots of reasons you can’t create the most very optimal experience. But even if you can’t swap out the switches in your rental there are other options if you keep “physical first” in mind. There are even smart switches made to stick over a regular light switch so you can keep people from turning it off (and this deactivating the smart bulb) and still have a physical switch, but it’s actually controlling a smart light.

Starting with a hard requirement of physical control still leaves lots of things on the table.