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Help Me Satisfy My Wife Using HA (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have an early 2000s house and they went wild with a) the sheer number of wall switches and b) the number of 3-way switches. I want to replace a good number of them while accepting my wife's requirement that they look and function as dumb paddle switches when necessary.

I've looked around and these seem to be the best at fitting all of my requirements but Mama Mia, the price 😭 😭 😭 😭

https://www.amazon.com/Inovelli-2-1-Smart-Switch-Dimmer/dp/B0BG329SH3

Anyone have some suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Noted.. Very good call ours. Thanks for all the details.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'll second what they said about ZWave and their recommended switches.

I have that same Zooz scene controller in the kitchen and it works great to control the kitchen lights and the RGBW cabinet lighting I installed. For 'normal' smart switches, I'm using the dimmer and on/off Zooz switches (~~Zen32 and 34 I think?~~ Zen72 & 76) which are about half the price of that Innovelli.

I used the HUSBZB in the past and it did work, but it's also pretty dated and hard to update so I went with the Sonoff 3.0 USB dongle (zigbee) and Zooz ZST10 dongle (zwave) and have had a trouble free experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Ok. I also have the Sonoff 3.0 and it seems good so far. Might need to add that ZST to the cart

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just want to me-too Ruaidbrigh's reco's and to point out, as a long-time homeowner, that you don't have to do all the renovations at one time. For me, at least, there's a big difference between spending $1000 to replace all the switches in the house and spending $100 to replace a couple switches every month or so. Big difference between spending the whole weekend re-wiring switches and a quick after-coffee task.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This is such good advice. You replace the switches one at a time, when you realize that it'd be nice to have that thing automated. Trying to do it all at once... that's eager optimization. It's overwhelming, and you'll end up replacing switches that you never use.

The exception is switch panels; my house has a couple 3- and 4- switch panels. When one of those wants automating, I give it a good, hard think about doing all of them while I'm in there.

But the bite-size advice is gold.