Hi - just starting out with home automation with home assistant and currently planning what hardware I will be using - there is one thing I’m unsure about though.
I currently have 2-way switches for my kitchen lights - one is a dimmer in a 4-gang dimmer and the other is a SPST switch in a 3-gang light switch. I am planning to replace the 4-gang dimmer with a lightwave smart dimmer 4 Gang Dimmer Switch, 4 Way Dimmer Switch | Lightwave and that’s fine.
But for various reasons I won’t bore you with I need to keep the dumb 3-gang lightswitch the other end - I can’t use a lightwave 3-gang dimmer. I don’t believe you can wire a lightwave dimmer to work with a SPST lightswitch in a 2-way setup…so how can I make the dumb switch work to toggle the kitchen lights?
I have room in the backbox as well as a neutral. So my thought process so far has been - and I hope this makes sense - I could do with some device that is powered by 230v that when a connected switch is toggled just raises an event over some network. That way I could react to the event and send a command to the lightwave dimmer to toggle. I don’t think it matters whether this proposed device is zigbee or wifi? Happy to accomodate for both in my new setup.
But does any sort of device like this - one that wouldn’t actually be connected to any light, just a switch - exist?
Thanks in advance!
). But there is nothing physically connected to the output of the shelly switch. The light bulb just reacts to the event of the shelly switch changing state via HA.