g. , the relatively high power communication protocol. Thus, the low powered nodes using low power communication protocols are able to send and/or receive messages across the entire home-and-business-security.html">smart home network 202, as well as over the Internet 162 to the server system 164. In some implementations, the mesh network enables the server system 164 to regularly receive data from most or all of the smart devices in the home, make inferences based on the data, facilitate state synchronization across devices within and outside of the smart home network 202, and send commands to one or more of the smart devices to perform tasks in the smart home environment. As described, the spokesman nodes and some of the low powered nodes are capable of “listening. ” Accordingly, users, other devices, and/or the server system 164 may communicate control commands to the low powered nodes. For example, a user may use the electronic device 166 e. g. , a smart phone to send commands over the Internet to the server system 164, which then relays the commands to one or more spokesman nodes in the smart home network 202. The spokesman nodes may use a low power protocol to communicate the commands to the low power nodes throughout the smart home network 202, as well as to other spokesman nodes that did not receive the commands directly from the server system 164. In some implementations, a smart nightlight 170 FIG.