I need a floor lamp. I like this style, that hangs the bulb from above, but covers it so the light is not very harsh. Overhead lighting generally gives me migraines.
In an ideal world it'd have a twist knob on it that lets you control the brightness but still be able to be controlled through automation. I know there are various battery powered remote devices, but with no good place to put one where I want this lamp to go it will likely get lost. I'm still not sure what I will actually do to control the lamp.
I'm also open to the idea of a smart bulb, but it would need to be able to be controlled locally. I have a LIFX bulb in a lamp in my son's room that I think works rather well. I do like the idea of being able to change the color, mainly to act as an alert/reminder, but maybe for mood lighting or low level nighttime lighting.
Dimmable LED...eventually we'll get decent ones and not long for the good ole days of filament and halogen lamps!
My advice would be to go with Hue. I've resisted for about 4 years and have every "dimmable LED" in the house controlled with a Z Wave Dimmer (Fibaro Dimmer 2) behind the switch. I'm just not happy with either the responsiveness for motion lighting or mainly the dimmability. Even when calibrated there's a crap range of dimming. 1% is just way too bright.
I fired up an old Hue hub 2 days ago and but a bulb in table lamp and the difference is astounding:
Dimmability - Smooth, linear and responsive. At 1% I could stare at it.
Responsiveness - I created a test Room Lighting rule including the lamp and one of my PIRs. It was instant.
I'm now planning to migrate most rooms across to Hue when my wallet will allow.
I have previously used Aeotec Nano dimmers that I have worked into lamp bases. But I remove the lamps' built-in dimming mechanism. Here are the dimmers that I've used:
There is not a wall? Also the Zooz ZEN34 and ZEN37 both are magnetic.
I dont think you will get on lamp dimming control + automation. So you will have to figure out a button, switch, or remote that can work. Or use voice control only.
From there if you absolutely want z-wave, I think you will need to go with a lamp dimmer plug module (or hack in an Aeotec nano as suggested above). Otherwise smart bulbs might give you a better experience but usually they are Zigbee or Wifi/Matter.
Wire a Fibaro Dimmer 2 (Z-Wave) as previously suggested into the floor lamp then use any dimmable bulb you want. But if you already are using Hubitat which supports Zigbee well, it is easy to find a Zigbee dimmable blub to screw into the lamp socket and be done with it. Either way you still have to control it. So some voice assistant and or button comes to mind.
Check Tapo P135 kit. This is a plug-in dimmer but has a little companion rotary remote. The communication is WiFi Matter. Of course it is compatible with Hubitat.
