I’m renewing the electrical wiring in my house and will add z-wave as well, but I do not want to rely on z-wave alone. That means that I want my light switches to work both with a normal wall switch and remotely through z-wave. The wall switch should also work if my z-wave controller does not work anymore. Two questions:
What is the best way to set that up
Can I also make that work with a z-wave dimmer so that I can dim light through the controller?
One way will be:
Buy Fibaro Dimmers or switches. Attach some “pulsdrukkers” to them and ur good to go. U can control them with Homey (Zwave) and/or just push the button when u feel like it. With this u have smart buttons and “normal” buttons in 1!
Hey Chris, as Roco said above, one way is to fit switches and dimmers behind the wall switch plate. In this way you can use all your lights including dimming them even if the controller is completely disconnected.
When I started my home Automation I was of the same principle, must work even if controller is dead. So I fitted Fibaro and Aeotec dimmers and switches and I kept the existing toggle wall switches but then later on down the track I replace those toggle switches with momentary switches. They work really well with dimmers especially.
And gave me a good solid z-wave mesh.
I have also set some of the fibaro associations to directly control another dimmer (settings made with Homey).
For example: use a separate pulse switch on the S2 of dimmer A to control a light on dimmer B (two-way switch / hotelschakeling). This keeps on working with Homey unplugged (and is even more responsive).
That’s also a good idea but only works for Fibaro devices which are in range of each other, right. But it works without the controller so that’s great.