I’m looking for a smart home solution use two switches in my living room (EU), in order to make them just smart enough so I can control some devices. The setup isn’t very complex in itself, and I’m pretty sure it’s doable - I’m just unsure what I’d need in order to use these switches in a ‘smart’ capacity…
This is what I had in mind:
- On-off switch, connected to a single light with three Hue filament bulbs. I’d like this one to always be powered, as to make them always controllable
- On-off switch, which should be connected to a light which isn’t in use at all. Once this one is ‘smart’, I could control all other smart devices in the living room like a ‘turn off everything’-button.
I have a Hue bridge and a Home Assistant instance running in my home.
With regards to wife-approval-factor, I’d rather leave the original switches in place, but I’m open to suggestions. I hope one of you can steer me in the right direction.
Edit: if this isn’t the right community for the question, I’d understand, but I wasn’t sure where to put it otherwise… I’d be open to suggestions to that too.
One of the features you might look for is, I don’t remember what it’s called, but direct pairing? I’m a big fan of Inovelli switches here in the US and this is one of the features I love, even though I don’t use it yet. You can configure the switch to always pass power, but act as a Zigbee/zwaveJS button, depending on which switch, then you can set up automation at your hub to take some action. However this goes a step further in that you can directly pair it with the smart bulbs, to control them directly.