Good day everyone:
I searched the forum but I didn’t find anything similar.
I have two types of switches controlling my stove, water heater and water pump. However, I can’t find any physical devices that has the force or mechanism to facilitate auto turn off/on. I bought the fingerbot, however, so far its pretty useless to be honest.
Any suggestions? I have home assistant running on a raspberry pi 4 which has a zigbee dongle that I plan to upgrade to a dedicated dell box later on.
You could just install a smart relay for those places to make things easier:
Else you can swap out the switch for a smart switch to skip the relay for the area’s you need them in.
What are the specs of the loads you switch? Amperage? Volt? …
For high loads, such as that required by a stove, you might want to consider using a contactor controlled by a smart relay.
The water header and Stove are on 2 double 40 AMP circuits (80 AMPS total) and the pump is on a 20 AMP.
I don’t know the voltages off hand but I would spec for that.
This is in addition to the switch that I already have? (See below example for the stove & water heater, the initial picture was for the water pump)
Thanks, I’m looking into this now. What smart switches can handle larger loads? The only switches I see can only handle smaller circuits such as light bulbs.
If you use e.g. a Shelly 1, you can connect your current switch to the Shelly’s switch port. Your manual switch can then switch the relay of the Shelly. The Shelly then switches the contactor, and the contactor switches the actual load. Maybe you can find some sort of smart contactor to which you can connect a manual switch, but I haven’t seen one.
Thanks, I am also not seeing any smart contractors. The only thing I’m seeing is smart circuit breaker, but I’m concerned re look and space. See link below:
https://www.aliexpress.com/i/4000120073991.html
I think I’ll likely have to go with the “current manual switch” > smart switch > contactor > device solution if space allows or see if I can do everyone from the breaker box and just use one big enclosure.
Just check your local regulations too. I’m about to install a smart breaker for a specific use case (mostly for power monitoring in a rental space), but I must still have a traditional breaker too (I may not have only the smart breaker). This is a bit different, since these sit in series and will work independently, but just to illustrate.
