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What I'd really like to find is some variety of smart switch with a mode change between 'control the wall circuit' and 'leave the wall circuit always on and sen
by crooked-v 6y ago
What I'd really like to find is some variety of smart switch with a mode change between 'control the wall circuit' and 'leave the wall circuit always on and send commands over the network', so that the same switch hardware can be used everywhere but you can change the mode for specific circuits that have smart bulbs.
I have no idea how one would design this in an intuitive way, though.
- ydant 6y agoInovelli (Z-Wave) supports this - https://inovelli.com/ https://inovelli.com/ They have a competitor whose name I can't remember that does the same thing. If you never program the switch, it behaves just like a regular switch. If you program the switch, you can specify if it will trigger the relay, or just send z-wave commands. There's even a physical override switch you can pull out to cut power in case you have it programmed in "soft" mode. The "red" product line doesn't require a neutral, either. Works great for smart bulbs as long as you can set the hub up to do the control. If you have z-wave bulbs (harder to find than zigbee, due to licensing), you can set up the z-wave pairing so that the switch controls the bulbs directly, so theoretically no hub required.
- crooked-v 6y agoFrom having just stumbled upon it, it looks like Insteon switches can behave similarly, and have the additional nice touch of syncing the indicator LEDs between multiple switches if you wire/configure them correctly.