Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Does some kind of wireless light switch exist? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey all,

I have a 4 way regular combined light switches on my left, one of which turns on the kitchen light:

The problem is, my kitchen is on the right side of the hallway, so every time I have to go left to turn on the lights.

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I would like to put an additional light switch on the right side of the hall, at the entrance to the kitchen, without having to drill the walls and put additional cable.

Is there some kind of wireless light switch paired with something I could put in front of my lightbulb cable that could work in complement to the existing light switch? I don't want wi-fi solutions, it would be stupid not to be able to turn on lights when internet is down.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are about a zillion options many/most smart switch lines have a battery remote that can typically be paired with any load(s).

The classic OG is Insteon. Their mini-remote screws to the wall surface and add a screwless Decora frame I think it comes-with?) is indistinguishable from a standard Decora switch.

I’ve even mounted one next to a single-gang box and put a two-gang screwless plate over it.

But you got those weird Aussie switches or something and Insteon isn’t popular any more, though the company got saved by then skin of it’s teeth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

any ZigBee options that pop to your mind?

the cleanest option at the moment seems like installing a relay behind the manual switch which can be paired with a wireless remote switch