Smart Light Switches

[Syphonx]

Sonoff M5, unless you like those awful glass touch switches

 

[Kung Fu Porkchop]

Sonoff M5, unless you like those awful glass touch switches

I haven't really decided between physical and touch switches. Any specific reason you don't like the touch switch?

 

[Syphonx]

I haven't really decided between physical and touch switches. Any specific reason you don't like the touch switch?

No feedback that you have pressed the button. You can't feel for the button either.

And I don't think they look that nice either

 

[Kung Fu Porkchop]

No feedback that you have pressed the button. You can't feel for the button either.

And I don't think they look that nice either

I guess that makes sense.

 

[Snyper564]

I haven't really decided between physical and touch switches. Any specific reason you don't like the touch switch?

I have touch and love it. There is a very light light glow around the area and does have a "click" when touched.

The recommendation given to me was you will love or hate it, get one and test it.

Thats what I did and zero regrets

also another suggestion was create a gmail account for your house and register all your smart items on it so when you move one day just hand over the house gmail account

also loads of my house lighting is automated so the touch made way more sense

 

[rh1]

Put a little DB in your roof and get Shelly switches. Run the cabling from the DB with the shelly switches in it to your physical light switches. That is the way to go in my opinion. That is what I am doing at my place.

Just to be clear, you have a db that houses the shelly switches that feeds you physical light switches.

How does that work? A physical switch breaks the circuit. Does the shelly switch overides the physical switch? If you switch the light off via shelly, can you use the physical switch to switch the light back on?

 

[SauRoNZA]

I have touch and love it. There is a very light light glow around the area and does have a "click" when touched.

The recommendation given to me was you will love or hate it, get one and test it.

Thats what I did and zero regrets

Yeah what you lose in tactile functionality in daylight, you win in the dark with the buttons being very obvious to find.

also another suggestion was create a gmail account for your house and register all your smart items on it so when you move one day just hand over the house gmail account

also loads of my house lighting is automated so the touch made way more sense

Not sure how a Gmail account will help, they would all need to be reset to be added to WiFi again etc.

 

[Athos]

Just to be clear, you have a db that houses the shelly switches that feeds you physical light switches.

How does that work? A physical switch breaks the circuit. Does the shelly switch overides the physical switch? If you switch the light off via shelly, can you use the physical switch to switch the light back on?

Yes sir, so the switch (SW) connection on the shelly is really just a toggle at that point. So it doesn't break the circuit. You can toggle the shelly using your phone regardless of the state of the physical switch connected to SW and vice versa.

I called it a DB really it is just a box that houses all of the shelly switches. I used a DB box with a din rail built into it and you can 3D print din rail brackets for the shelly switches (which is what I did).

Here is an image off google (no idea what language that is).