How to properly integrate track lighting into smart home?

Questions & Help
1

I’m thinking about isntalling a light track in my apartment. The way I see it now though it will be connected to a single light fixture point and span both dining and living area. They way I see it now is that I have to put a smart relay between my rail ajd my traditional switch in order to keep the rail permanently powered and then I have to include a smart bulb into every rail fixture I add in order to be able to divide it into zones.

Is thia the correct way or is there another/better way to do it?

2

To keep the rail permanently powered you just have to bridge/shortcut/remove the traditional switch.

3

But what if I want to keep the original switch?

4

You can keep the switch for esthetic reasons, but not for switching. So disconnect the two wires from the switch and connect them together.

5

Are you sure? Because I’ve heard some of these built in smart switches (which allow you to keep your traditional switches) have something like a “smart bulb mode” (for lack of a better term) which doesn’t cut power to the light when it is triggered.

6

If you still want to use the input of the smart switch, the sensor, to trigger a flow, that is possible. Then you don’t use the output of the smart switch, the actuator, to switch the mains of the lamps.
Or use a smart switch with a sensor only, like KlikAanKlikUit AWMT-003.

As far as I know “smart bulb mode” is just a commercial term for selling you a switch with a sensor and an actor function, and then not using the actor function. Also called “decoupling input from output”.