Hi, I was thinking in replacing my “bypassed” switches (previously working with a regular light, and now controlling a smart fan/ligh that must be always on) with a smart Bseed switch. As I don’t really want to turn on/off the fan+light, I just need to send an event to HA to actually turn on/off the light. I was thinking in this model:
But my doubt here is if they have this functionality. I don’t want to change the status of the switch using HA, I want that when I manually switch the switch, the event is sent to HA and then act accordingly, just like a “detached” mode in Sonoff relays (I am not using this because I don’t have enough space in the switch box).
Bseed/tuya switches generally don’t have that feature but you can enable those by installing this custom firmware
Here’s an example for my switch, they’re still working on multipress but they do have single and long press if you’re using it as scene switch in detached mode
So probably no matter device for you, at least not without the often obligatory manufacture hub. Otherwise you are mostly not allowed to change this power-on-state setting of “your” device
Great! Some ZigBee devices that actually can be owned and allow extension of functionalities
Quite a contrast to the locked down matter devices with flash encryption and secure boot which actively prevent ownership. Needing to contact the cloud for on boarding matter devices just seems to be the icing on the cake
If you choose a device with full ownership you also have full local control allowing to do exactly what you want. In short every device running ESPHome is capable to do this and even more like checking for an active HA connection before sending the event and in case it is not available toggling the locally connected relay (for example)
