I have looked and looked and found many half-solutions, but what I would love is some kind of magic hardware that can be wired into a standard bulb lamp with socket switch/chain to make it smart without the built-in switch breaking the smartness.
By breaking smartness I mean shutting off power to the smart device or shutting off power to the bulb so it can’t be remotely turned on. The latter is how most smart plugs work. The former is how most smart bulbs work.
I want something like a wire-in bulb socket like the one pictured but with the switch wired to a zigbee relay like a sonoff zbmini L2 so it registers simply as a toggle.
There are some small modules similar to this like the aforementioned sonoff zbmini l2 and those zigbee/wifi socket adapters so maybe I could hack something together.
or do I just gotta do a Kickstarter so everyone can enjoy this product?
I feel like this needs a Shelly dimmer module and some modification to the original chain or switch mechanism. I have never used it so not 100% on how it works, but with two switch inputs maybe the step settings on the dumb lamp could be wired to 3 (both off, sw1 on, or sw2 on) or 4 (both off, both on, sw1 or sw2) distinct states and then program that to control set brightness levels.