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Best smart light switches in 2020

"This high-tech touch screen lets you control multiple smart home devices, as well as your lights."

Review: Brilliant home automation system with HomeKit lives up to its name

Apple Insider gives Brilliant 4.5 stars. "The number of features found in Brilliant is truly incredible and there is little like it on the market. With HomeKit support, this easily jumps to the top of our best smart home accessories list."

Brilliant can now open and close your garage door [With the Genie Company Garage Doors]

"Brilliant's touchscreen controller can manage one more element of the home now through its wall panel — the garage door. The new feature works with many of Genie garage door openers, letting people use the Brilliant device and app, to open and close those doors from inside their home, or from the app if they're in the car."

Q+A with Aaron Emigh, CEO of Brilliant, on COVID-19 and the Global Supply Chain

"It was a matter of staying in close communication with everybody...We made sure that we could fulfill all of the contractual commitments that we had, the relationships with the builders and the operators of multifamily housing..."

Brilliant adds a dimmer switch and smart plug to its smart home ecosystem

I’ve tested the Control in my house for the last few weeks and came away impressed, mostly because it brings a single, flexible physical control system to the disparate smart plugs, locks and other gadgets I’ve accumulated over the last year or so.

9 ~Hacks~ For Keeping Hackers Out Of Your Smart Home Devices

"In a lot of cases, [hackers] are not trying to guess your password, they're trying to get you to tell them," says Aaron Emigh, co-founder and CEO of Brilliant. Phishing emails will invite you to a site that looks and behaves like a normal site in order to trick you..."

Brilliant is King of the Smart Home

"The concept behind tech start-up Brilliant is therefore—excuse me here—brilliant. It takes control of your smart house out of your pocket...with a panel that anyone can use"

Excellent rating for a product that will 'help make your smart home even smarter'

"The Brilliant Control is a versatile light switch controller with built-in Amazon Alexa functionality that connects to your lights, music, and lots of other smart home devices."

Brilliant expands its Brilliant Smart Home Control with a new smart dimmer and smart plug

At CES, the company is showing an expanded product line that includes a new in-wall smart dimmer and a smart plug for controlling lamps.

Brilliant makes your smart home more manageable

The promise of the Brilliant Controls is that you will be able to control all supported smart home gadgets from the physical and touchscreen controls...the system is actually incredibly easy to use, and even your house guests who have never seen a smart plug will finally be able to turn your lights on and off.

As smart home market booms, builders see plug-and-play tech as a standard feature

Brilliant, a smart home controller, is helping builders make high-tech a standard option for new homes.

Brilliant’s smart home controllers are the antidote for smart-speaker hell

I’ll be upfront and say Brilliant’s smart home controllers are, well, brilliant. The company’s right when it insists they aren’t smart light switches – they turn your lights on and off, but that’s not the point.

Brilliant is a bright contender in the battle of the smart switch

"Just because Brilliant can control a wide variety of devices, that doesn't mean its interface is fussy or complicated. On the contrary, the default controls give you immediate access to what you most likely will want to do at the switch."

Streamline all your smart devices with one plug-in system

"It comes with a lot of helpful features... but its real appeal lies in its ability to streamline the smart home eco system, which can be complicated when you've got a lot of separate devices on the go, and its ridiculously simple installation process makes things even easier."