Asked, answered.

A press is one named light state: the lamps you chose, at the color and brightness you chose. "Dîner" might be two pendants at candle-warm 55%. Tap it and it happens. It's a moment of your home, not a vendor "scene" buried in settings.

Once, to set the system up — hubs, firmware and pairing bulbs stay the vendor's job. After you connect that account to Lutin, daily life happens on your board. The vendor app goes back in the drawer.

They keep working exactly as before — Lutin adds a board, it doesn't take anything away. But you may find, as we did, that you stop programming them, stop feeding them batteries, and just pull up the board instead.

Voice assistants only reach what the vendor exposes to them, per platform, per house — and setup is its own project. Lutin is one calm board for every house and every guest, plus real AI agents that can actually build your setup, not just toggle it.

No. Nobody but the owner ever touches a vendor account. Guests get an email invite, open the app, and the shared presses are already on their board. Your grandmother will not need a tutorial.

Yes — that's the point. You like 2500 K, dimmed and red at night; someone else likes bright white. Each member makes their own presses, and common rooms carry shared ones everyone can use.

Their access to that house is set aside — nothing switches on by accident while they're away, and nothing is deleted. When they visit again, resume them with one tap and their presses are right where they left them.

That's exactly what Lutin is for. Each house connects its own system; you switch houses like tabs, and everything behaves the same. And when the kids grow up and get their own place, they add a new home to the same account — keeping their favorite presses at yours.

Any MCP-capable agent — Hermes, OpenClaw, Claude, and others. If your assistant speaks MCP, it can knock. See the Agents page for the two-line setup.

Only if you gave it Manage access — and agents only act when you ask them to. You choose the access level at pairing, see every connected agent in Settings, and can revoke any of them anytime. Use agents can view the home and press existing saved buttons, but cannot directly set arbitrary lights or change setup.

Never. The agent requests access, you approve it in the app with a visible pair code. No passwords, sign-in codes, keys or tokens ever belong in a chat window.

Philips Hue, over the official Signify remote API. LIFX, Govee and others are next — same board, same presses. Longer term, maybe more than lights, with the same no-fluff rule.

Any modern browser — phone, tablet, desktop. It's a small PWA: install it to your home screen or dock in seconds, no app store involved.

Its presses dim on the board and tell you why when tapped — no silent failures, no mystery. Plug the lamp back in and everything wakes up.

The owner of a house pays $5/month for that house — free for the first 14 days, no card. Members, family and guests never pay anything, ever. Cancel in one click; payments are handled by Stripe.

Yes — each house you own carries its own small subscription, on one bill. Houses where you're a member cost you nothing; their owner carries them.

Nothing clever. Your homes and presses are private to your household; there are no ads and no data selling — the subscription is the whole business model. Sign-in is a one-time email code; there are no passwords to leak.