About to move into an apartment building that has no lights at the entryway when you first walk-in.

[kaunhaitu]

As the title says, the entryway is quite dark when you first walk in. It's a gorgeous entryway with marble flooring and a lot of room on the walls to put nice decorations to make it really shine but the lack of any light source is going to hinder my efforts. This area is more of a lobby than anything. When you first walk in, you can walk about 15 ft straight and you will be met with a wall. It's a t intersection where the left splits off into living room and the right splits off into the bedroom and bathroom area.

My idea is as follows: purchase a couple of really nice floor lamps and set them up on either side of the lobby area. Put some smart bulbs in them and configure them to light up for 10 minutes when my phone reconnects to the Wi-Fi network after being disconnected from it. It's a high rise building so I have to walk down a hallway to get to my apartment and it's 1300 square feet so I have to walk past my actual apartment in the hallway for about five seconds before I actually get to my doorway so I feel like if this type of automation is possible, it would be a feasible solution. My only issue is that I have no experience with home automation yet and don't know if this is possible right now. Any advice would be appreciated

[snellejellep]

i would suggest using regular bulbs and something like an sonoff basic flashed with tasmota, way cheaper and if the bulb pops you wont have to pair a new one to domoticz.
also, you may want to use a pir sensor because it would be quicker detecting you. i think you will have walked past your lamps before your phone has finished connecting to wifi.

your described plan will work but i do not think it will work the way you would like it to work.

[rohan123]

i would suggest using regular bulbs and something like an sonoff basic flashed with tasmota, way cheaper and if the bulb pops you wont have to pair a new one to domoticz.
also, you may want to use a pir sensor because it would be quicker detecting you. i think you will have walked past your lamps before your phone has finished connecting to wifi.

your described plan will work but i do not think it will work the way you would like it to work.

great infomation thankyou for solving my problem as well