I have a smart bulb on our landing, so can dim it at night. Easier to fit than a dimmer switch, and with my Nest Mini's around the house easier to control, 'hey google landing light 50%' works well.
I would say sit back and think about the future, what you may want in the fullness of time. My wife needed her knee done, so we turned the dinning room into a bedroom, so that she could turn the light on/off from bed, I got a TP-Link light switch
and remote button
I already had the hub, switch worked well, but the button not used as she used voice control, it was re-used as a door push. If only one bulb then at £10 easiest option is bulb
the button shown can be configured turn it and up/down and push it on/off, but they allow so much more, my living room lights turn on at dusk, my landing light turns off at 1 am, the list goes on, but each make tends to have there own hub, so as I have said some thought is also needed.
I have zigbee, Tapo, and Energenie, the Tapo (TP-Link) light switch used AAA batteries, so no problem with no neutral at the switch, it can switch PIR controlled outside lights, not a problem with bulbs shimmering, or staying on dim, but control from a PC is poor, from phone, tablet or speakers is good, but to dim means using smart bulbs. The Zigbee is used by many makes, so is more universal, but not found battery powered switched that use it, battery power means not altered by power cut as well.
In general a smart bulb will switch off with a power cut, so flicking switch off then back on again will turn off lights, a simple bulb with remote
can allow dimming and colour changing with ease, no need to use phone.
The problem with any electronic switch other than Tapo is either it needs a neutral, or there is a
compatibility chart showing what bulbs will work, with a dimmer even harder to match bulb with switch, so with my Energenie light switches, I have ended up swapping bulbs around to find ones which will work, had problems with smaller bulbs (G9) with a shimmer and staying on dim, needed to fit
a load capacitor to get them to switch off, and now I have a draw full of bulbs which will not work with the Energenie switch.
So living room 8 bulbs, so smart switch, craft room 4 bulbs, so smart bulbs. You can get remotes, the Lidi one,
allows me to switch and dim zigbee bulbs, the energenie one
only turn on/off, I use latter in my bedroom, wife has a remote, but uses voice commands, personal preference. I had the remote in mothers old house to turn off extruder alarm, used to know when mother had gone on wheel about (in wheel chair).
I have fitted a chandelier on my landing now,
and used a smart relay so can select centre, outer, or all lamps, and the centre also a smart bulb so can change colour
I am trying to give you fuel for thought, rather than saying copy me. I also have a high socket with an emergency torch which will turn on automatic with power cut, or if dark as one walks past it, slowly loosing use of fingers!
