New house Light circuit 10A, own RCCB. Aircon 16A own circuit with own rccb. If light circuit use aircon circuit neutral wire, will cause trip at RCCB coz it detect as current leak. RCCB is safety features trip when there is leak of current that dont return to its own circuit neutral line

zigbee, z-wave, and WiFi are all share same same frequency 2.4GHz (mostly). They interfere among themselves but since they use spread spectrum technology, they still able to mitigate and find the right channel to talk to their device.

Quick question. What is the difference between model with and without Neutral? One with N is using WiFi and one with no N is using zigbee?

Kiding, where can I find info on this? China website cannot find.

"Aqara zigbee switch (requires live wires only)-> it also has 1, 2 gang version"

Thanks. Looks informative especially the wiring diagram and with picture etc. Good to know it has V-O grade and CQC too.

You got this working without the neutral line, am I right? with direct retrofit into our home rocker switch?

There are only 16 channel for zigbee. Unlike Bluetooth, it uses direct sequence. How does it select the right channel to use?

You have 1, 6 and 11 non-overlapping WiFi on 802.11b, but now many people set their WiFi on 11n and even use MIMO WAN setup. There is not much you can do. What about zigbee to another zigbee interference? You have multiple devices. Does all zigbee decived that is controlled by a single hub can share same channel?

Walau, do you need till 3 deadbolt ?

As a thief, I won't tackle the lock. Just crowbar the door.

Yes. Many people emphasize on door... Dead bolt, Live bolt, Uncuttable padlock, etc. It is actually very easy to hollow steel grill with bolt cutter.    Roof is another easy entrance for those in landed property.

My front door doesn't even have grill 

Easy to set. I already set it. Just need to physically be there to trigger it only
I set the motion sensor to tell the smart plug to turn on. Also send a notification to my phone. I can also get it to turn on all my lights etc

Boss, I have hard time to understand the " using automation ". 

When disarm, this group of sensor should be OFF from sense anything to trigger right ? So even a door open/close many time, will not trigger anything.

When you arm the alarm, all the sensor fall in this group will ON and arm.

That is normal procedure for an alarm.

Is this "Automation" something a bypass some sensor ?

What apps product is it ?

Look like have the dedicate Alarm system.

I have good suggestion for google/alexa.

They should develop a mix language BM/English/mandarin/canto for asia market. That should solve most of the language problem.

Mix language to activate solve all the asian people trouble of selecting particular language, to remember the word and difficult in the angmoh slang.

Specially for older people using.

Good or not. 

I think the angmoh thinking the language algorithm is same as western.

So they very straight forward apply to the other language.

That proven to be difficult to use the device.

Most of the asia language is still very much less the word specially in technical and technology term. Given mostly all this device is invent in west and they have the name on it with is their language.

So when we asean want to use it, there is dozen rojak pronunciation come out. That the device is headache to prosecute the demand. 

There ain't just 35m people. Only indonesia is already over 100m.

My idea for google/alexa is good. That solve many country need to convert the word and just use rojak language. 

Hei google, got job for me ? 

Not yet. Decide just replace the battery and continue search for a better wan.

Last week go pasar road buy the battery, there is few shop selling some china alarm package. The brand is Guanghua something like that.

Look not bad and got phone notification. Price from RM900-2.5k. Depend the sensor I guess.

Maybe you have less family member at home. Sometime Automation will be more troublesome, other than the HA, I still cant find a Smart Home can use your phone location setting/ or Router connection setting to trace if the family member at home and to trigger if to run the automation setting. Probably you can argue, can use motion sensor to trace the movement, but this already the second condition already .. for example,

IF <ANYONE> Home then <NOT> to run the motion sensor to CLOSE the <THINGS> @ <TIME FRAME>

are u using geofence to trigger your autogate? how do u know when to open to gate automatically?

Mind sharing which app if you are on Android?

Car battery doesn't last long. And not suitable for such backup using.

Actually not worth to do.

1st the cost of energy to constant keep the battery charging all the time. 2nd, for whole house? That can cost you arm and leg. 3rd maintenance and duration of backup when blackout.

Unless your house have history of frequent blackout and long duration like whole day. Just 1 or 2 blackout peryrs and short duration is not worth to do.

I already have a bank of battery running with solar for few yrs. Due to the smaller size of battery and increasing the consumption, I choose to upgrade the system. Since I still have about 800wp of solar in storeroom, plan to setup this yrs. Using the free energy to charge the battery will save me some bill from TNB. (it just the myth. )

After calculate some cost and comparison type of battery, I choose to DIY the lithium battery. Instead using lead acid. It is cheaper cost, produce more energy and lighter bank. But require more knowledge and patient to DIY. Compare just buy the lead acid battery and dump into the system.

Yup. My automation no need wifi or smartphone wan. It run "true" automation without human intervene. 

Get it here https://www.oznium.com/led-controllers/fade-in-fade-out.

You mean the AV or others ?

If others area like back yard or front post, yes. I got 2 solar spot light that use pir/motion to activate. It have to be run in this way as the battery cannot last for long percharge.

For other running on 240v, all manual switch ON.

Btw, not annoying meh put PIR and motion sensor to activate light or anything ?

If you put in the toilet, 1/2 way shit, shiok2 surfing phone, than light off. It won't detect if you only slight move. Unless install near to you.

I hate this my back yard pir/motion light. I have to keep constant to move or wave the sensor when it OFF. Sensor is only 1-1.5m away from me.