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?
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.
Can’t believe no one has mentioned Inovelli yet. Developed with the community, with OTA support in Z2M, they are absolutely fantastic and incredibly flexible!
https://inovelli.com/ blue series
Another vote for the zooz zwave switches. I think I have 6 of them so far and plan to put in more.
I like zooz 5 button scene controllers. They are z-wave.
I also like kasa’s switches. They are wifi, but being on mains powered I’m not concerned with wifi draining batteries and I have them in a vlan with minimal access.
How do WiFi switches do when you have a lot? Is it an issue to put in 50 WiFi switches, wouldn’t that overload the network?
I currently have 54 things connected to WiFi in my house. Only 10 of those are connected to 5 Ghz. The rest only support 2.4.
With one good access point it would probably work no problem. I have 3 access points due to the layout of my house.
Use channels 1, 6, and/or 11. Those are the only channels that don’t overlap with other channels. If you live in a dense area, 2.4 gets tricky. 5 is easier, because more channels.
Interestingly. I was a bit worried about adding dozens of new WiFi devices but it sounds like it’s not an issue so I will consider the WiFi switches after all.
They don’t have a lot of traffic. I have over 40 kasa devices between switches, outlets, and bulbs with no issues.
I was under the impression that WiFi could only handle so many devices connected. 20 years ago if you got more than 10 or 20 some would start getting kicked off. Maybe that was my short router. Is that never an issue with modern routers? Even adding hundreds?
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.
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?
They work like regular switches. The flip of the physical switch sends the change back to home assistant to keep everything synchronicity.
I don’t have any, though, so I’m not sure if you can set it to “up is always on”, or if it ends up being a switch, so “whichever direction just changes the on/off state”
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.
I love my Shelly relays. I don’t use the stock firmware though. I have them overwritten with ESPhome.
I have heard that you can have full local control with them now and that it’s not really necessary to do a custom firmware. I just like having a configuration file that tells me exactly everything that it can do. That and I have a script running that updates all my ESPhome devices automatically.
