Apologies if this is not the correct place to post this.
I have a potentially cool project and was hoping to get people’s thoughts on whether this is realistic. I currently manage streetlighting for a local council, and one of our small townships is looking at getting new Christmas lights. However, due to the increasing costs of installing and removing these lights, we are looking at alternative options.
One idea is to convert our main street bollard lighting to RGB and install permanent RGB spotlights, etc, with the hope that these could be controlled centrally and turned off and on and changed colour, e.g. red and green for Christmas or green for St Patrick’s Day
Because we don’t currently have a central management system for our streetlight network, and I’m a big fan of Home Assistant/Zigbee, I’d like to know if this is an option.
would this ever be a realistic option with standard 2.4ghz Zigbee lights (e.g Philips hue products)?
Are there any “Nema 7-pin socket” Zigbee controllers out there that would work with home assistant? We currently have these on top of our streetlights and could use these as additional routers.
Are there any other options/ products out there that could make this doable? these would need to work with 240v/50hz (Australia/New Zealand)
But I don’t think there are RGB versions from a quick look up, and you would prob need to contact suppliers if they have options for RGB based lights.
Smart bulbs and lights in gen need always on power to them else they will be reset after a set time so the control method would be less the switch in the pole but just the sensor passing through the data to toggle them on and off whilst still having power to them, you would still need to allow power off physically when swapping to new ones for safety.
Also as long as there is ground, neutral and live the smart bulb and relay will act as a router for the zigbee network you setup, without a neutral it will not and will just act as an end device.
Make sure as well when you do this setup that you only give access to validated staff and not just general contractors when its setup so that access is not misused using the options to lock down what specific user profiles can access in HA options and make sure to have all staff that are given access have 2fa enabled on the profiles that are setup for them.