• MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
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    I agree with the overall sentiment, but a smart switch would be harder to change than a smart bulb most of the time. Smart switch would require electrical work to replace. A smart bulb can just be swapped. If anything the toilet is a good proxy. A smart flush means it won’t manually flush. If they had done a smart fill you could just manually fill the tank with water.

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      Not necessarily. The “smart” necessarily causes some real world movent (opens a valve). Just design the physical action to be able to be performed both manually and electrically.

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        In this post it seems as though smart is being used to mean completely replacing the thing. I think that having both smart and dumb options is ideal, but in this particular context I think the reference point is that the smart object does not allow a manual override.

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      True, but you could also add a switchbot to it. Ugly but simple and without electrical maintenance needed.

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      To be fair, if you had a water supply you could just chuck buckets of water down your toilet if the flush wasn’t working.