I don’t know which small phones have been released recently but I’ve used an iPhone Mini and decided against it. Not because it’s small but rather because it’s not small enough.

See, I do like a big screen more than a small one. That said, the phone is something I carry in my pocket so there’s a balancing act to be done there. What was really great about the original iPhone’s size was not that it had a small screen. It’s that it was small enough that I could reach all corners of the screen with my thumb.

None of the recent small phones I tried had that advantage. In that case, since there’s no clear usability advantage to the smaller model, I’ll take the larger screen instead.

I have high hopes for Matter but as it stands today it’s a pretty big mess and usability is generally horrible.

Ah yeah of course. That makes sense, thanks!

Can you not just avoid the problem by not binding any end devices to the bulbs?

A Shelly RGBCCT isn’t going to control a GU10 bulb.

Ok I’ll admit my ignorance. Why not?

There’s Qubino Z-Wave devices, and some Bluetooth ones though my experience with those has been a bit dubious. And integration outside of their own ecosystem is still via WiFi (except for sensor beacons which are BLE).

The issue was that using the old mechanical switch would shut down the router in the bulbs. A relay absolutely solves that.

In any case, it seems to be possible to use a Shelly RGBW2 in CCT mode. Here’s an example of how to do it in Home Assistant’s native Shelly integration though OP says there’s also tutorials around showing how to do it via MQTT.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/converting-shelly-rgbw2-color-white-mode-into-a-cct-mode/589985

Or a relay switch and keep the existing mechanical switch on top. I like Shelly but there are tons of options.

Founding member of company that stands to make fortunes through a product endorses said product.

I run it on my router which has the CG-NAT IP address.

Whilst you’re right that it could clash, it’s very unlikely (a 1 in 4194302 chance), I imagine Tailscale would detect the clash and change IPs though I could be wrong as it never happened to me (and probably never will - though in all fairness it will eventually happen to someone).

Been using Tailscale behind CG-NAT for years. It works wonderfully and very rarely needs to route through the DERP infrastructure - it’s almost always a P2P connection.