Hey all,
I have a 4 way regular combined light switches on my left, one of which turns on the kitchen light:
The problem is, my kitchen is on the right side of the hallway, so every time I have to go left to turn on the lights.
I would like to put an additional light switch on the right side of the hall, at the entrance to the kitchen, without having to drill the walls and put additional cable.
Is there some kind of wireless light switch paired with something I could put in front of my lightbulb cable that could work in complement to the existing light switch? I don’t want wi-fi solutions, it would be stupid not to be able to turn on lights when internet is down.
WiFi does not equal internet. WiFi is a local network that need not be connected to internet at all. So, you could absolutely use a wifi, z-wave or ZigBee solution. Provided the switch and button you use support local control and do not rely on a cloud-based server, internet doesn’t come into it.
ZigBee would be ideal, I’m planning to build a HA solution in the future, but this and a thermostat are the first step.
Do you have an example I could investigate? I’m based in the EU.