Best Switch

The ZEN32 answers a problem every smart home eventually hits: wall switches control one thing, but rooms contain many. It puts a normal relay switch plus four small programmable buttons in a single gang box, each button firing local Z-Wave scene events with a hub-controllable LED — so a guest sees a light switch, while your household gets one-tap control of the whole room. It runs entirely locally, and at around $30-48 it is one of the cheapest ways to make a smart home usable by people who never open an app.

The Inovelli White Series 2-1 Smart Dimmer (VTM31-SN) is an in-wall switch that speaks Matter over Thread, making it one of the few wall dimmers that is fully standards-based from the radio up. The 2-1 designation means a single device can be configured as either a dimmer or a plain on/off switch, so one SKU covers most rooms in a house regardless of what kind of load is on the circuit.