"Roger Hayter" wrote in message
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Rod Speed wrote:

"Roger Hayter" wrote in message
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Rod Speed wrote:

Fredxx wrote
Rod Speed wrote

It uses kinetic energy to send a wifi signal to the base.

You were doing well until this point.

That's what it does. No battery no wires.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-Per...Synthetics/dp/
B0748MQWP3/ref=dp_ob_title_light

I'd prefer to call it mechanical rather then
kinetic energy, without further information.

It has to be by the kinetic energy of the finger press.

I would not describe applying a force of a few hundred
grams over a millimetre or so as "kinetic" energy.

They all do anyway. It isnt just Philips that has one.

Unless you cut off your fingers and throw them at the switch.

Unlikely to sell well don’t like that.

But perhaps he was suggesting that Wifi was not
really an appropriate radio protocol for the purpose?

Zigbee is in fact by far the best approach because not
only does it get repeated by all the bulbs and battery
powered sensors like the motion sensors, it's a proper
non proprietary standard that lets you use other than
Hue devices on your Hue system.

Not Wifi then.

Yes, it is, zigbee is just one flavor of wifi.

The bridge plugs into your router using
a cat 5 cable and uses the router wifi.
The bridge doesn't do its own wifi.