For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Brilliant to give MacRumors readers a chance to win a Brilliant Control, which is a touchscreen-equipped smart lighting solution that's able to control your lights and all of your other smart home products.

The Brilliant Control, available in a range of colors to match any decor, is designed to replace one of the light switch panels in your home. On-screen touch sliders can be used to turn connected lights on and off, or dim them. Brilliant Control is also able to interface with other smart home products using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, so that same touchscreen can be used to control everything from your Nest thermostat to your Sonos speakers.

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Because there's easy access to smart home products through the display, everyone in the family can control connected devices without the need to pull out a phone and open up an app.

In addition to a touchscreen, the Brilliant Control includes a motion sensor, a video camera, ambient light sensor, and voice control, plus integration with Amazon Alexa, so voice commands can be used to control lights and all other smart home devices.

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It's similar to an Amazon Echo, but with a touchscreen and built-in integration with your lights. Brilliant Control works with a range of smart home products, plus IFTTT, SmartThings, and Wink hubs, but it isn't compatible with HomeKit.

While the base Brilliant Control is designed to replace a single light switch, there are other (pricier) versions that can replace panels with up to four light switches.


Pricing for the Brilliant Control starts at $199 and the device can be purchased from the Brilliant website, but we have two to give away to MacRumors readers. To enter to win, use the Rafflecopter widget below and enter an email address. Email addresses will be used solely for contact purposes to reach the winner and send the prize. You can earn additional entries by subscribing to our weekly newsletter, subscribing to our YouTube channel, following us on Twitter, or visiting the MacRumors Facebook page.

Due to the complexities of international laws regarding giveaways, only U.S. residents who are 18 years of age or older are eligible to enter. To offer feedback or get more information on the giveaway restrictions, please refer to our Site Feedback section, as that is where discussion of the rules will be redirected.

The contest will run from today (June 30) at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time through 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time on July 7. The winners will be chosen randomly on July 7 and will be contacted by email. The winners will have 48 hours to respond and provide a shipping address before new winners are chosen. Brilliant Control prizes will be shipped to winners later this summer following the product's launch.

Top Rated Comments

Gasu E. Avatar
105 months ago
Adding Brilliant to your wall gives you the option of motion control, voice, touch and the companion app. So yes, you can control all of your products using multiple apps from your iOS, but can guests or kids? Sure, if you hand over your phone every time you want to turn a light on or off and search for the app. Brilliant unifies all of this. There are a lot of great features like our video intercom that you can use to talk from room to room (encrypted and privacy screen included). Right now our Ring integration displays a notification on the Brilliant screen if someone presses the button, or it will display the video feed if you prefer. If you have a smart lock connected (via a hub), you will the option to open the door directly from the notification. These are just a few examples. I hope that helped!
I have no kids. Or friends of any kind. "Visitors" (a/k/a "trespassers") are shot on sight. Yes, there's the occasional pizza delivery person; but that's on a strictly "leave the pizza, money's in the box" basis. How can this product help me? And no comments on "how I should live me life"-- Mother used to do that, before she passed.
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rekhyt Avatar
105 months ago
We do plan to have a HomeKit-friendly version in the near future, and will have an upgrade path. You wouldn’t need to rewire anything, just swap out a faceplate.
HomeKit absolutely key.
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mariusignorello Avatar
105 months ago
We do plan to have a HomeKit-friendly version in the near future, and will have an upgrade path. You wouldn’t need to rewire anything, just swap out a faceplate.
Good to know, thanks for reading the forums!
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Brilliant_Tech Avatar
105 months ago
Hmmm no HomeKit?
We do plan to have a HomeKit-friendly version in the near future, and will have an upgrade path. You wouldn’t need to rewire anything, just swap out a faceplate.
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iMi Avatar
105 months ago
We currently work with Sonos and Bose but are looking into AirPlay 2 as you said.
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No problem :)
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It is in the device, "Brilliant turn on the lights." Alexa is also built in and as I mentioned in a previous comment we are planning integration with HomeKit as well.
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I appreciate your opinion and gather you may not be a huge fan of smart homes in general. For those who are interested in smart homes Brilliant is a central device unifying all of the other smart home products and as I mentioned has voice, motion, touch and app control options for added convenience. Things like motion control and "Away Mode" help save money on bills as well, which I think we all can agree is beneficial.
You are making assumptions. I like smart home and have several connected devices already. I don't like redundancy. Sure, the away mode sounds useful, but let's talk about the money savings aspect of it. We have five bedrooms, plus kitchen, dinning room and two living rooms. In order to control all the devices in each area of the house we would need at least five units for the bedrooms and at least three more for the living rooms and the kitchen. That's eight devices. They start at $200 each? Say we stick with that basic configuration. That's $1,600 plus tax. Our house is modern, has high efficiency appliances, windows and LED lighting throughout. Our utilities add up to about $200 a month. It includes a marine tank, computers and other devices, like the fridge, that cannot be turned off on in the away mode. We already have a smart thermostat. If the away mode saves us 10% on bills each month, which I think is a generous assumption, then it will take almost 8 years just to cover the cost of the devices before any savings are realized. I can already do all this with a smart phone. In fact, I could by two iPad Minis for each floor of the house as extra house control devices - plus they double as full pledges media consumption devices.

Ok, so I can't enjoy the "groundhog day" experience of the lights turning on, music starting automatically and the weather forecast being announced as I walk into a room. Yeah, that won't get annoying after a while.

There is one application where these products make sense. I could see builders putting them into new homes. That's the market you should be targeting. Rebounding market where shoppers want efficiency. The added cost is small in terms of the overall purchase, builder can install easily. Low cost there. Plus, they can command significant margins on top of it, as they do with most new home upgrades.
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