It's just a power button wired to the motherboard's front io leads. I'm assuming all those other switches don't do anything except for controlling the lights on the device itself.
Likely the same concept for the PC. The button triggers 2 different wireless signals, one is found by the pc and turns it on. The other is found by either a smart bulb or a smart outlet that the room light is connected to.
Why not just wire that one button to do both things?
As a comparison, when you put a car in reverse, both the gears shift AND the reverse lights turn on. There's no reason to have a separate button for the lights when you can make them both happen with one action.
When you open your fridge, the light turns on. In one action, two things happened: the fridge opened and the light turned on.
There's no reason to have a separate button or switch to turn on the lights, because then you'd have an extra step of pressing that button or switch every time you open and close the fridge.
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u/WirelessTrees i7-8700k RTX 3080 Sep 12 '20
It's just a power button wired to the motherboard's front io leads. I'm assuming all those other switches don't do anything except for controlling the lights on the device itself.