I'm trying to figure out a centralized Android unit controlled light (which would end up being many lights in many rooms) that can have multiple Android units attached to it.

The point is I want to put cheap tablets up on the walls everywhere. All of them should be able to control the lights and anything else I have hooked up to the system. As much I love my current lights, and I really love them, they don't satisfy the end requirement of multiple universal controls mounted on the walls.


Any ideas?

I have a house filled with lights. Six in one room 20 and another etc etc. These lights currently have multiple lights assigned to a single remote remote so each room has a single remote but that remote is very limited functionality and there's only one per room and I want to be able to control individual lights to each side of the couch and individual lights by the corner etc etc.

At that point I can use the Android app. The Android app allows me to group the lights as much as I want. But the Android app is on a single phone. I want multiple devices to be running an Android app to be able to control any light in the house.

So if I was to use this style of light and application then I assume I would set up a single control unit up on the wall and then remote into it and take control of it. Unless you're telling me I can set up VMs on an Android device which will then run the same application for each of the remotes to operate. Pointer for that please?

The commercial option is one of those that if you have to ask you can't afford it. No prices listed, call them and engage your project manager. A project manager?

I want everything, I want it now, I want it cheap (enough), I want it reliable, screw the engineering triangle.

My current smart bulbs, infinite colors, in floor lamps are great. The floor lamps have three goosenecks so I get three of these bulbs which is plenty bright when combined for pretty much anything. They attach nicely to their cheapo remotes. Critically they will revert to being a normal light bulb with the switch on the back of the lamp turning off and on so no matter what I can always simply turn it off and on and bring it back with no remote.

There is no technology hurdle for anyone else in the household to turn the light on. Or off.

They are five bucks a piece when you buy them in packs of four with a single remote. I love these lights.

So I guess I'll stick with them and someday put up remote control Android centralized control unit for it. Until then 99% there.