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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Z-Wave Table Lamp Dimmer with wireless remote? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Been googling but not finding a solution. Looking for a plug-in Z-wave lamp dimmer that has a wired or wireless remote. Use-case is for table lamps on each side of sofa that want controlled through automation and lighting scenes, but also allow local control from whoever is sitting at the couch that may want to individually turn on/off/dim the lamp. Some sort of puck or button that could have on end-table next to lamp would work. Nice if it was wired into dimmer module that lamp plugs into or be wireless, so don't need to worry abt remote being replaced or battery replacement, but wireless/battery could work and could just attach it to table next to the lamp with velcro.

Lutron Caseta has something like what I want, but I don't want to introduce another control protocol and another hub just for these couple table lamp controls. Any variety of GE/Leviton Z-wave plug-in light dimmers could work, if then could have a small Z-Wave on/off/dim controller that could sit next to light, as long as it woke up quickly communicated to Home Auto controller (HomeSeer) and could then actuate the light. It would need to respond fast so user doesn't get frustrated with any action delay.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Pretty much any z wave remote can do this, direct associations are a great strength of the z wave system.