Stephen Schenck / Android Authority
TL;DR Amazon is launching a smart light switch that doubles as a remote control.
The remote’s four buttons are programmable, and each one can activate an entire smart home routine.
Sales open October 30, when the remote will be priced at a mere $19.99.
Amazon unveiled its fall 2025 hardware lineup today, complete with new additions to the Kindle, Fire TV, Echo, Blink, and Ring families. Tie all that together with the AI processing power of Alexa Plus, and you’re looking at a pretty solid collection, capable of pulling off some seriously impressive technological feats. And my favorite thing there might have been a dinky little $20 light switch.
To be fair, this is more than just a simple switch, and the $19.99 Amazon Basics Smart Dimmer Switch and Remote for Music and Routines does a whole lot more, as its mouthful of a name should hopefully convey. It may live on your wall, but pops right out at a moment’s notice to serve as a convenient remote control.
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Obviously, you can turn your lights on and off, and it has controls for dimming, but if that’s all you’re using this for, you’re doing yourself a disservice. With the help of Alexa, you can instead map pretty much any smart home control onto one of the remote’s four buttons.
These don’t have to be simple, single-device commands, either, and you can dedicate one button to performing an entire routine: lowering the shades, turning on some colored lighting, and getting your music playing, all in one smooth action.
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