I’d love these in a satin or matte finish but that would probably be the lowest priorty for now I’d guess.
Watch the following video and keep in mind that a smart switch has many more parts. Some electronics components are simply not made here, and would need 10’s of millions of investment and years to build out the production of them.
There are a lot of things we should make but don’t and it is more difficult than you may know. People say we should mine more Aluminum, and we should, but to do so would be $1billion easy just for the land and factory. Then you need the permits and investment for the mine. Need transportation so probably a new rail line. On top of that you need power plants built since Aluminum smelting takes mind boggling amounts of electricity. That is 5 years min construction plus however long it takes to get approval and funding. All in it could easily be $5billion total needed with no ingots for 10 years. No one is going to invest that kind of money unless they know they can make a profit for 30 years after.
What I’m getting at is that Inovelli is too small to do anything other than maybe have the parts shipped here and assembled so they can say assembled in USA for a markup. Only well thought out Govt policies that we can trust to be around in 40 years have a chance of on-shoring production.
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From my own light bar playing around I discovered using a plastic with just a little fog to it helps disperse the light a lot, when using a pure translucent plastic the light shines straight through more and shows hot spots.
Pardon me if this sounds dumb, but to diffuse could you place a diffuser directly (slight gap) at the LED as well as closer to the switches? I’m not sure how much room you have to play with but in my experiences that the diffusers work better the further away from the source… obviously we don’t have that much room inside the switch housing so possibly double diffusing with a gap between to allow the light to scatter?
How long until I can send you my wallet and everything in it in exchange plz? 
In all seriousness, this is effectively the last component I need in my home in order to enable me to develop full spousal approval. At current, I’m utilizing a whack-ton of buttons all over the house, some of them with wall cradles that are removable, others permanently affixed, and ALL of them battery powered; the maintenance of battery replacement is getting under my skin, and the risk of things not working even once due to a dead battery I missed makes this product a life-saver for me.
I understand it’s likely too early to provide anything firm, but is there a price range you’re targeting for this?
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Here is the product listing.
Depending on your preferred networking protocol it’ll be between 75 and 90 each.
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Was the two-part manufacturing able to be resolved? Was there an alternative solution found?
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