I’m beginning to map out how I’m going to configure lighting in my house, so I wanted to put together a roadmap of what I’ll need room by room so I can start budgeting. The complicated part here is hardware and compatibility. There’s an abundance of brands and competing technologies, so I’m trying…

If you use openHAB, there is no direct Connection between the bulbs and Switches needed. openHAB can take care of that, Any event detected by openHAB can be used as a starting point of sending commands to some other connected “thing”. The downside is, if any connection to openHAB is broken, from sw…

This may be too late, as you’re leaning towards Hue bulbs but rather than using Hue bulbs, you could just use regular LED bulbs and just replace the existing in-wall switch with a z-wave dimmer/switch instead? This way you don’t upset people who just like having a familiar switch on the wall (in th…

Thanks for all of the suggestions! It gave me some food for thought. I think I’m going to start with a few GE z-wave switches and dimmers with my existing dimmable LED lights and go from there. The z-wave switches aren’t any more expensive than the standard Lutron paddle switches I have in place …

On second thought, I had one more question regarding recommendations for a z-wave controller. What would be a better option: a hub like SmartThings or the Wink 2; or a USB stick like Aeotec? Is there any difference in range or functionality as it relates to OH? If most of these controllers use th…

Suggestions for pairing smart switches with smart bulbs

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matt1 (Skinah) May 2, 2018, 1:55am 4

Johns suggestion is good, but u won’t get colours and warm to cool white ability.

You could use hue and then do this for the switching. Or the mi light globes are much cheaper as they are only a one way protocol.