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Turn. Press. Control.

Orbit is a wireless control dial for the smart home. One remote, endless possibilities — and years on a single set of batteries.

Orbit Remote in four colourways — white, slate grey, matte black and navy blue

Orbit — white, slate, matte black & navy colourways

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Your smart home has a remote-shaped hole in it

In development

The bulbs are smart, the speakers are linked, the scenes are set — and yet every night ends the same way: standing in the doorway, phone in hand, thumb hunting through an app to turn the lights down a notch. That's not automation. That's a chore with extra steps.

Human hands are really good at one thing we've been doing for a century: turning a dial. Volume knobs, oven dials, the click of a thermostat — your fingers already know exactly how far "a little dimmer" is. Orbit gives that back to you.

Spin it to dim lights, scrub volume or nudge the thermostat. Click to toggle, hold for mute, double-press to flick between scenes. It speaks Zigbee — the same language tens of millions of smart devices already use — so it drops straight into Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT. No hub of its own, no wires, no app, no account, no subscription.

And it runs for years on a pair of standard AAAs — two to three on alkaline, up to four on lithium — not the weeks-to-months you've come to dread from battery-powered gadgets. When the day finally comes, swap them like a TV remote.

Protocol
Zigbee
Works with
Home Assistant, Z2M
Power
2× AAA — 2–4 years
Colourways
White / Slate / Black / Navy
Subscription
None, ever

The road to your doorstep.

Not starting from a napkin sketch — starting from an almost-finished, validated design.

  1. 01

    Firmware bring-up

    Zigbee stack, deep-sleep power management, the works.

    Zigbee · Deep sleep
  2. 02

    Battery validation

    Proving the multi-year numbers on the bench, not just on paper.

    Power tuning · Real hardware
  3. 03

    Enclosure finishing

    Final fit, feel and colourways — printed in-house.

    Fit & finish · In-house production
  4. 04

    Hub testing

    Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT, end to end.

    Home Assistant · Z2M
  5. 05

    Pilot batch & backer testing

    Real units, real homes, real feedback.

    Pilot run · Field testing
  6. 06

    Production & shipping

    We make them, we pack them, you get them.

    Production · Fulfilment

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Orbit is in active development. Get in touch to follow the build or register interest ahead of launch.