Remote control and automation.

Remote control: While climbing into bed, I notice through the window that the lights in the garage are still on. Not a problem: I can turn them off from where I am.

Automation: I get up, get around, and leave for work. Did I remember to turn the coffee machine off? The light in the kitchen? Did I remember to dial the thermostat back? I don't have to go back home and check because it doesn't matter: Those things were done for me, automatically, by virtue of leaving.

Later, I get home from wherever I went for work today. It's been a long drive, and it's dark outside, and it's dark inside, and my bladder senses the proximity of a familiar toilet and starts screaming at me before I even start to open the door. By the time I set foot inside of my home, the pathway from the back door to the bathroom has become illuminated so I can get there in a hurry without tripping over a cat.

It is a LED light with dynamic color temperature, brightness, quick predefined modes (i.e. dim night light mode, evening mode, etc) and a timer.

I have an LED light with those things, but it uses a simple IR remote control. No need to sign away my firstborn to use it.

that remote conrol will be like all others. disappear until I need it least.

I just needed to link a google account and permissions are minimal. nearby devices for the bluetooth/NFCand nothing else. other 5 permissions disabled. worth the convinience since I have control over what it can/'t do.

My buddy has a similar story with a boiler control app. First thing the app did was sending an sms to a chinese number.