Aeotec Heavy Duty Smart Switch - Manual button?

Hardware
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Is there any way to provide a manual on/off for this switch? I see no bypass leads for adding an external manual switch to override the ZWave/remote control

This device does have a manual button ‘under the cover’ , but once one closes this off, that is inaccessible. Has anyone found a way to make that accessible (drilling a hole into the cover, inserting some third party button extension and maybe covering it with some elastic [ Durex? :slight_smile: ]

Sure, that device should then not be placed in a location where it could be subject to moisture/steam etc, but in my case it would not be anyway

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Would not it be easier to use some wall mounted smart switch and and program it to toggle the Aeotec? You could the place both anywhere…

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Sure, but I also want a solution if the HA service is completely dead.

4

If you pick a Zwave switch, you can use Zwave associations, that works independent on HA.

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But does that still require the controller Zstick to be active?

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No Zwave associations are direct device-to-device communications without the controller necessarily requiring to be online.

Here, this explains it a bit better Z-Wave Associations – Z-Wave Outlet

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