I am building a new house in Spain and have the opportunity to put in as much automation as I would like. I had light switches and lamps and my electric gate and garage door set up in my old property - all with ESP8266 behind the existing wall plates if needed. However, the electrician here introduced me to a new (to me) product - Simon 100. It appears to be incredibly flexible and has a product to suit most applications… light switches, sockets, motorised shutters/blinds and doorbells. Building these in from the start would be so much better than retrofitting.
Has anyone any experience of this product. It appears to have Wi-Fi and RF433 so really flexible for integration. On the website it shows their products being used through an app. However I would like to be able to integrate with HA and I could then do presence modelling.
The website is Spanish (or translated). Simon 100 product site
I didn’t want to sound as though I was marketing their product. With a second look there is Zwave which I know is already integrated - duh!
I have recently purchased and installed the Simon 100 IO Hub (schuko) with another 100 IO in slave mode. Some issues with the Hub not does not always change the device states to “off” as programmed. I have to do it manually and then reset the scenes to get this to function correctly on the next start.
Have you had any luck with integrating the Simon 100 IO products into Home Assistant? I am using HASS.IO and have begun the setup of Zwave functionality. Now I need to work on recognizing the Simon 100 IO slave device.
I am building a new house and have not got to the stage of integration of the Simon 100 series. I was not intending to install the hub but run from raspberry pi with the aeon zwave gen 5 as the Simon products are supposed to be zwave gen 5 compliant.
I’d like to reopen this thread as I have the same situation as LArivee15 (building new house in Spain) and I’d like to know if anyone has tried and succesfully integrated Simon 100 with HA. Thank you!
In the end because of budget restrictions and because my research was that Zwave was not always (at the time) reliable with HA, I opted to use Shelly 1 for lighting and Shelly 2 for shutters. These have worked reliably since installation and I found them easy to install behind wall switches and set up with HA. I have not yet tried to connect the Shelly 2 to Alexa. That is my next project!
I am now awaiting delivery of the new Shelly 2.5 for multi-switch lighting situations like stairs and they will flash easily with tasmota. No integration problems with Alexa (hopefully).
