I’m looking to replace a few in-wall light switches for lights that are not easily replaced with smart bulbs. I currently use Home Assistant with z2m for all my smart lights and switches, so zigbee switches would be preferred. Does anyone have recommendations for smart in-wall switches?

  • Zadhu@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Anyone in Australia, as an electrician, the best option is Clipsal Wiser switches, dimmers, relays etc.

    Zigbee that defaults to standard push button operation when the network drops out.

    If using HA you DO NOT need to purchase the hub that they say is required to use the switches.

  • brownmustardminion@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I know you’re in zigbee, but I’ve tested many different wall switches and IMO Zooz Zwave switches are the best option.

    They’re cheap, reliable, and most importantly don’t cause LED lights to flicker like every other brand I’ve tested. They also have replaceable paddles so you can change the color of the paddles. I purchased black paddles and used a sand blaster to make them matte like the rest of the outlets and plates around my apartment.

    Inovelli is also great however those switches are overkill for most situations and very pricey.

  • λλλ@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I do in-wall relays so that I can use regular, off the shelf switches and it looks like nothing special is there. I like the idea of people not knowing it’s smart until I do something from my phone.

    • rustyricotta@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I can appreciate that.

      But does that mean if you phone it off, the physical switch is unable to do anything? Or does the switch just get inverted?

      • λλλ@programming.devEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I apologize for the confusion.

        It makes it so that the direction of the switch doesn’t matter. Flipping the switch toggles to the off or on state that it’s not currently in. I like to think of it as a three-way switch that you may already have in your house where up doesn’t necessarily mean ‘on’ because there are two switches involved. The relay in the wall is the other switch. So if you have the light on in home assistant but you flip the switch, it’ll turn the light off whether it was up or down. I hope I made more sense.

        If my wifi goes out my switches function as normal too.

  • dmtalon@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Been using enbrighten switches from Jasco. I use their Zwave but I think they have ZigBee too.

    I use the ones that look like toggle switches over the paddle style to match the rest of the house .

    I have them on all our bathroom fans too so they can be left on (steam / smell disposal) and auto shut off after 30 min.

    • aion@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m think about putting them on bathroom fans as well. It would be really nice to have them automatically turn on/off based on humidity.

      • dmtalon@infosec.pubEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I had a humidity switch in ours a while ago (not smart) and it would turn on too much even if a shower wasn’t running but our windows were open. And, enough humidity was in the air. So that didn’t work out great.

        It was a self contained deal not a smart switch though

        • aion@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          8 months ago

          I got the enbrighten switches set up on the bathroom fan. After a few months of observing the humidity changes I settled on triggering the fan based on the derivative of the humidity. I found that 2%/s with 2min of averaging works well, no false positives so far.