zoogara
January 30, 2024, 9:14am
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Yeah didn’t think of that.
If you can find cheap zigbee reed switches you can wire them to a standard light switch and use them to switch the lights using an automation. Battery powered and last for ages. Hide the existing switches.
I did something similar with 433Mhz door sensors:
NOTE to anyone coming here from Hackaday link - MQTT sensor definitions have changed considerably since this was posted. I will update later…
I have got into home automation in a big way since I found Home Assistant, but my wife is less fond of the whole talk to Google or use your phone thing just to turn on a light bulb.
Sure - she likes the automations, like the fact that our garden lights turn on every night at the end of dusk, and that we can turn on the low voltage lighting in our outdoo…