I am new to HA, but have spent the past few days researching and reading this site for a project I am working on. I’m helping to create a home constructed with Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) in the US, and I am working on how to set up lighting. The walls, floors, and ceilings are all solid wood, so we have to use wireless self-powered or battery powered wall switches adhered to the walls, which then connect to a receiver that controls an LED strip that runs along the ceilings or coves or etc. We are starting with lighting, and then later will tackle other automations.
Currently, my idea is to have a HA green with the Connect ZBT-1 (or yellow so I don’t need the Connect ZBT-1), wall switches similar to a Zigbee Smart Switch Intelligent Wireless Remote, and then with the LED having a driver like a Zigbee Constant Current CCT LED Driver to power and control the LED.
Being new to HA, it makes sense to me thinking through it, but of course all newbies think that, so I thought I should ask. TIA!
The first thing to do is double check with an electrician who knows the code being used where this build is being done… I’m not sure about currently, but previous NEC versions required all habitable rooms, kitchens, and bathrooms to have at least one wall switch-controlled lighting outlet (or wall switch-controlled receptacle in bedrooms)… and those wall mounted switches could not be completely dependent on batteries.