Controlling your home with tiny, cheap touchscreens

A few weeks ago, I read my friend Michael Pusateri's post on this tiny touchscreen you can buy at Aliexpress, and how he programmed it to become buttons for his Home Assistant setup, letting anyone who walks by control the lights. I was immediately intrigued and ordered one because I knew where it could solve a problem in my house.My home office is where I work each day and because I'm also lazy, long ago I bought a motion sensing wall switch that powers my overhead lights. I love that the room comes to life whenever I walk in, saving me a couple seconds of tapping a switch on the wall. But it means whenever anyone (including our cats) walks into the room, all four overhead lights flick on.Usually this isn't a problem but I don't love having four bright white LED overhead lights on late at night if I'm working at my desk, and since the lights have Philips Hue bulbs in them, they can be set to any RGB color. At night, I like to set them at a low brightness along with a bluish-purple…