I have never used a "smart timer" for my cage lighting. I usually use LED strip lights connected to a timer. I have used these timers in the past an they work well. The only downside is there are only two outlet plugs per timer.
I have also used the lighting feature on Herpstats, which also works very well, but it seems like kind of a waste of a port. Neither of these options gain or lose time appreciably, but they do need to be reset for daylight savings if you want to factor that in, not that an hour makes a huge difference either way. The smart timer feature just didn't seem very worth it to me. Assuming you have an 11-12 hour light cycle running from say 8am to 7pm, losing or gaining an hour still leaves you with a reasonable time range and quartz timers nowadays lose at most, 15 seconds a month, so +/- 3 minutes a year. It didn't seem like it was that big of a deal to me.
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