GE Lighting seems to be bucking a trend with its all-new GE Cync Keypad Dimmer Smart Switch. Most new-to-the-market smart lighting controls do their best to not look like smart lighting controls. This is typically accomplished by limiting the number of buttons on the device, making it less intimidating to the user and eliminating confusion as to which button performs which function.

Festooned with no fewer than five buttons, two of which can be programmed, the Cync Keypad Dimmer makes Lutron’s Caséta family of geeky smart dimmers look tame. The equally new GE Cync Smart Paddle Dimmer, on the other hand, hews closer to Lutron’s Diva smart dimmer, with a vertical slider on its right-hand side for controlling the brightness of a connected light. Both dimmers have 7-element LEDs to repo

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