Am planning to start small on smart home probably by changing to some smart wall switches, buying some smart bulb. I read from this thread that most of the smart wall switches requires neutral? Malaysia houses does it comes with it?
One of my broadlink two gang switches malfunction recently, just less than 1 year of use, one of the gang always on.
Quality of those China electronic products still have long way to improve, especially those without big brand.
All z-wave products (around 8 devices) I bought from US is still working fine, without a single failure, quality always come with price, China brand so far only Xiaomi products are more reliable, I have tried Kudled, Broadlink, and some other non brand, all failed within a year.
thanks for the heads up. What about sonoff? quality better?
I was looking at broadlink products. I got one stupid question, i know broadlink RM pro can send RF signals at 433Mhz. So if I use multiple broadlink TC2 wall switches does RM pro knows which switch to turn ON/OFF?
This post has been edited by ular_king: Dec 4 2017, 10:04 PM
one Sonoff will do, just make sure you put the Sonoff in the main cable before it splits to the other 4 lights Turn off your mains breaker before working on it.
Just out of curiosity, if the actual wall switch is ON and you OFF it via sonoff app and lost WiFi after that, will you able to ON the lights?
After reading thru the thread there seems to be no reliable RF/WiFI Wall switch. Basically i just wanna have a switch that i can use timer and remote on/off on it . Any recommendations?
This post has been edited by ular_king: Dec 28 2017, 05:31 PM
Is there like tutorial/video on how to properly connect the capacitor? Sonoff T1/YJZK- WIFI & RF switch : Reliable and still working fine, but need to add neutral wire for installation Broadlink TC2 - Seems like there's always complains about this stopped working in a short time or other issues Chuguan - This one RF only, I only bought one to test it out and so far so good, same price with sonoff t1 though Xiaomi Aqara - Only up to 2 gang only, needs gateway for pairing, no need neutral wire
Only 3 in socket have Neutral wire. Switches does not have one. If you see many wires it is just because the L wire is looped in the switch + the wire to the bulb (Yellow one in the diagram previously)
So that means definitely have to ask electrician to add neutral if wanna use switch like sonoff.... damn additional costs again....
I mean you can take the Neutral from the aircond switch. My home all room got aircond switch beside light.. Bathroom got water heater switch.. Only living and kitchen got light only..
Another option is to use sonoff module installed near the light. Got RF and WiFi type. This way no modification needed. The switch on the wall is normal switch but need to switch on all the time. The module on the ceiling will act like a remote switch
Install something like this on ceiling
Yeah i've consider this as well, hiding this module inside the plaster ceiling. Not sure Wifi has any problem reaching it if inside plaster ceiling. Plus if module broken, need to find a way to replace it without breaking the plaster ceiling