The best thing to do is to turn on the lights on your old switch and then turn off the circuit breaker for that switch. The first step to installing the Brilliant Smart Home Control switch is to turn the power off to where you will be wiring the switch in. And, assuming you have the proper wiring (again, you MUST have a neutral wire), you can get the Brilliant switch installed in just a few minutes. I can’t really see the difference between the smart switch back then and the one I installed. And the physical design truly hasn’t changed much over the past couple of years. The designers at Brilliant really thought through the physical design of their smart switch. I ended up getting one! Installation was a Snap! I realized, I really wanted to have a Brilliant Smart Home Control switch in my office. It was back in the box, and headed back for a return within an hour. Despite being wired up correctly, the switch didn’t work. I did have the required Neutral wire (note: many if not most smart switches require a neutral wire). I got this $20 “smart” switch and tried to install it. I simply wanted to be able to use either Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant or Samsung SmartThings to lazily be able to turn on my lights from sitting at my desk. So, I decided to test out a “highly-rated” and inexpensive one on Amazon. And over the past couple of years, we have been using it daily to control lights, locks, our Sonos speakers, and other connected smart home devices.Īs I was building out my office, I realized I wanted a smart switch. My full review of the Brilliant Smart Home Control switch still reflects my opinions of this smart home product. I installed one in our kitchen and one in our master bathroom. (*Disclosure below.)Īfter the tech media event, the Brilliant folks were kind enough to supply me with two 1-Switch Panels to test their integrations and ecosystem fully. And I realized I still believe it is the best smart switch and control that I have reviewed (and seen, for that matter). So, I decided to install another Brilliant Smart Home Control switch to add to my ecosystem. Recently, I was building out my office and realized that it was pretty “dumb.” It needed some smart home technology to bring it to the modern age. After spending quite some time at their booth, I ended up awarding them “Best of Show” at the event. It was a company professing to have an integrated yet elegantly designed smart home switch that didn’t require a hub. As I perused many companies and their products, there was one “new” company that really caught my eye, Brilliant. Back at the end of 2018, I attended a media-only tech event in San Francisco.
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