Hello guys
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I have been learning from your shared projects and problems.
Currently im trying to add some smart wall switches to my home but im having some diffuclties. The problem is i live somewhere in middle east and the country use 220v (2 live wires) to power homes and there is no neutural line at all. What type of wall switches you guys recommend, Which works well with that type of power and home assistant as well.
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Didn’t recognize the 2 live wires in your post, since I didn’t knew that until now, sorry man.
So you need wall switches for high power appliances that do operate both wires?
Assuming that simple bulbs are still powered by 120V.
I have 8 Switches of this developer. I’m testing for him and soon they will go in production.
Touch switches, based on ESPeasy. So you can program as how you want!!!
Well actually bulbs here are 220v powered.
Usually one wire goes directly to bulb and the other to wall switch then to bulb… But there is no neutral at all
Super confused. Where I live I got 220/240V. 1 live wire and 1 neutral AFAIK with the live wire providing 240V. Very similar to UK if not exactly the same.
You’re saying that you have 2 live wires each providing 110/120V
Yes. You also able to wire your bulbs When your HA system goes down you still can turn them on.
I have rules created with MQTT actions and some more other things to control led of the touch.
I guess the 2 live wires without neutral comes from the fact that the 220v in your area is made from the two poles of a three-phase system (an old one), there is something like that in some parts of my country as well.
So you don’t have a neutral, but I think the right kind of switch would be the one with the neutral wire, and you will just have to ‘impose’ one the wires as neutral, and then keep it coherent throughout the smart switch wiring.
I don’t know the usual electrician practice in your country; but in my country, on almost all wall switches; above the switch, near to the ceiling point there is a conduit hole which is generally covered by a plastic round cover. This point has the live as well as neutral and ground cables since it is the distribution point for that zone. I pulled out neutral from this point and send to wall switch down. It is generally about 1 to 1,5 meters of cable per wall switch. But the problem is the pipe going from the conduit hole to the wall switch is full, so you can not send the cable from this pipe within the wall so easily. What i did was to tape 2 cables to the already laid out live cable and use it as a guide and pull it down from the wall switch hole.
