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Cake day: September 6th, 2023

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  • Tldr this house was wired funny

    Here are some reasons:

    1. automatic lights which follow us from bed to the toilet and back with minimal disturbance of each other and which return to pure dark without flipping a switch.

    2. A hallway which have terrible switch placement. It has a 4-way switch and it leads to a room with another 3-way. 5 switches which should have been 3 can be consolidated using automation

    3. I want automatic motion lights on stairs. Another annoying 3-way to get rid of

    4. Kitchen has 9 light switches. I don’t want to explain why, but it’s not that big

    5. TV area where scenes are important/want integratiom with other stuff

    6.I want on/off automation on a few interior and all exterior lights for safety/security






  • I’ll look into these. I hadn’t really considered ZWave but I don’t know enough about it not to do some more research. I picked ZigBee because we already have a tonne of Hue bulbs which I will slowly migrate to z2m.

    You’re right, the cost of a Zwave USB shouldn’t be the deciding factor when the potential cost is in the hundreds for multiple switches.

    I do know that I have neutral wires and have 2, 3, and 4-pole switches which I’m targeting for replacement




  • Edit: Scene support is not a priority. I need remote control so I can integrate sensors or scenes set up in HA

    These are immediately going on the top of the list. Also, I’m going to adopt WAF as a metric immediately. Thank you.

    Quick questions about owning these. Do the paddles stay in the center? Or do they click into a position? Also, do you find the click of switching them as loud as non-smart switches?




  • I’m in a similar situation and my strategy is to play the long game and win on convenience. I am giving my partner a curated HA dashboard as an option (vs the native apps). Once I feel like an integration is “production ready”, I put it in the curated dashboard. That way, she can choose her preferred interaction method… with the hope that eventually she’d just prefer HA and the functionality would be relatively equal without the cloud stuff.

    I’m dreaming big