![]() Happy to answer any questions anyone may have or provide more info. Smart Switch Smart Light Switch Wall Touch with Neutral / No Neutral No Condenser Smart Life Works with Home Smart Switch for Light ( : : Tools. I’m reallllllly hoping the cloud service doesn’t just vanish one day soon :’-(.Īs for the RM Pro - my god getting it to properly function can be a very painful and frustrating process (the software that comes with it is terrible, though they have made some improvements, basically after being pushed to do so by product owners). You might be able to find a used one somewhere. The devices are still on Amazon, but are not available for sale. More bad news for Hook: the company was started by a group of young engineers in graduate school, and for the past few months, it has appeared that perhaps they are giving up on their startup and are moving on to new endeavors. ![]() I have g9 bulbs, and my switch has no neutral wire. I don’t understand why the RM Pro can’t also do this, but have found very little online about it. Hi Last year I gave up with my idea of building a smart lightning solution at home as there were lots of limitations. If you don’t have a neutral wire, you can have an electrician run a new one to your light switch. Without a neutral wire, the Kasa smart switch might not work as intended and could even be a fire or electric shock hazard. You can then use any number of RF remote controls/switches/doorbells as buttons to trigger your devices/anything else you want to connect and trigger. The Kasa smart switch requires a neutral wire in order to safely and reliably work. A big plus for the Hook however, is that you can not only transmit RF signals out to control your devices, but the hub is also able to function as an always listening RF receiver, which can also then trigger actions. The hook uses a cloud-based portal and can connect directly with IFTTT via webhooks/HTTP requests. I like the Hook very much, however it only works on 315 MHz RF signals, while the RM Pro will work with 315 and 433 MHz devices. Sure, you could screw smart bulbs into your fixtures, or plug a couple of lamps into smart plugs and call it a day, but if the light fixture in question is controlled by a dumb switch, you’ll never be. ![]() I’ve had no issues.īut yes, for these devices you need an RF transmitter/receiver aka “hub.” I have the Hook Home Automation hub (less than $50) and also the Broadlink RM Pro (you can find them for $25 online). No Lighting Solution is as elegant as having smart light switches and dimmers embedded in your walls. Even if the network is disconnected, with Zigbee connection, your smart home devices will still function automatically. Actually, there are several other brand names on Amazon with the same technology (I guess this is an example of China’s lax/non-existent patent laws?), and I have both Funry and Livolo brand RF wall switches in my home and they work beautifully, with Alexa/Google/and with OpenHAB via IFTTT, or I imagine the Broadlink RM Pro once I can figure out the best way to get that working with OpenHAB (I’m brand new to OpenHAB). Equipped with wireless switch, you can easily control the same lights from two or more locations without new wiring. I faced the same challenge in my 1950 home and the glass-touch-panel switches mentioned above have worked beautifully for me.
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