Lighting - Mechanical / Automatic

Hello from Russia :3

If there are people who know and have already applied some kind of solution in their everyday life. I am interested in having the physical switch still continue to function, but at the same time it worked exactly the same way as automation (work through a mobile application that is tied to Raspberry Pi as a home control system). That is, the following solution is of interest:

Physical switch - on / off light is physically (at the same time automation continues to work, so that the automation module continues to be energized and at any time it was possible to remotely send an on / off light signal to it)
Automation module - on / off light remotely (at the same time, if a physical switch is used, it will turn off or turn on the light if it is physically affected)

It is also interesting whether it is possible in the application to realize that these 2 actions would be displayed immediately - physical effects on / off and remote on / off.
Please tell me how to implement it correctly without buying smart switches, leaving ordinary ones, if possible. Just wondering what will be on the cable broach. What will need to stretch to where, and what will need to be scattered after.

Hello,

Not a complete list here, to get you started, here is couple of popular solutions that will work with both your requirements:

  • if you want to keep the existing physical switch, there are sonoff basic, etc., and sherry
  • if you want to replace existing physical switch, sonoff T1, etc.
    Plenty of information and instructions here and over the net.

There are more choices depending how much work and comfortable/handy you are with electrical wiring :slight_smile:

Good luck and welcome to the group.

Hello,

Thank you very much for your reply. As I looked Shelly 1 is the best solution for me, and easy for installation. The other question is, as I understood it is open source device, so it will be possible to get connected to all other devices in my house, with writing my own application for controlling yes? Because I don’t want to download this Shelly application.

My understanding of Shelly was it works with mqtt and has api so, yes, it can work with anything via those paths. It is on my list of devices to try next also.

check out Tasmota on github. it works with the shellys and sonoffs. i have several of each running the Tasmota software and i love them.