'Brilliant' Aims to Replace Your Home's Light Switches With Touchscreens

“It does not appear to support Apple HomeKit. “

Deal breaker.

Really neat technology that is not needed by anyone. I grew up in a house with intercom panels in each room connected to a central station that included AM/FM radio. It was almost never used beyond the novelty factor. Many houses in the neighborhood were built at the same time and had the same devices. None of my friends used them either. All the teenagers opened them up and disconnected the wires so that they knew that parents could not listen in. One friend told me that his parents removed wires from intercom panel in their room for the very same reason (Builders all put the central stations in a common room).
Up/down light switches with dimmer is just fine, reliably work and have zero compatibility issues have have been around for decades. Don’t have to be concerned with technology needing to be updated or outdated and replaced.
Saving money and keeping things simple is not a crime.

If Brilliant doesn’t support HomeKit, I won’t support Brilliant. This is one area Apple is getting right: tight protocols and emphasis on security & privacy. Without them, the Internet of Things will become the Internet of Things that Leer and Listen to You While You’re at Home. No thank you.

It would be cheaper to buy a bunch of old smartphones and stick them on the wall.

No thanks.

Anything about homekit?

Also does it work with a 3 way switch? All the other “replacements” for light switches I’ve seen don’t work with 3-way wiring, which makes them useless for me.

Finally, now we are getting somewhere… now it just needs to support homekit and give it another year to work out all the bugs and other issues every new product comes with.

It’s a hard sell when you can buy a regular switch for $1.97.

So we have smart switches everywhere so that we don’t have to shift our butts from the couch and at the sane time our iPhones count our steps towards the mythical 10,000 mark and our watches tell us to get up every our (and don’t forget to breathe!)

It does not make sense!

I really don’t need or want a complicated wifi enabled network just to turn the light on! I’ll bet a lot if people will be ripping these our in s few years time when they start going wrong and putting back in regular switches!

I’m not a Luddite, I have 2 macs? iPhone, 2 iPads but technology should serve a real purpose (other than creating income for tech companies)

No HomeKit, no sale.

Also, why complicate the light switch? They’re turning a light switch into a connected device that now draws energy, has a screen that can go bad, will need “updates” and can be made obsolete. No thanks. HomeKit is about automation, controlling things from ONE location and security. When done correctly, you shouldn’t need a screen on all your switches. I don’t need to see the weather. My wall switch, thermostat and fridge are the last places I want to check weather.

This is a product for a problem that doesn’t exist. No thanks.

Like a lot of the Home Automation stuff, this provides very little advantage to existing technology.

I really don’t understand the video advert. Do the kids live in a separate house, so the parents can’t communicate directly? Or do the parents just hate their children?