# How to properly integrate track lighting into smart home? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Created:** [April 5, 2025, 8:11am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092 "2025-04-05T08:11:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/roel_van_eyken/32/131031_2.png) [@Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://community.homey.app/u/Roel_Van_Eyken)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 8:11am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/1 "2025-04-05T08:11:38Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 8:37am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/2 "2025-04-05T08:37:07Z")
> [@Roel\_Van\_Eyken](#): > > to put a smart relay between my rail ajd my traditional switch in order to keep the rail permanently powered To keep the rail permanently powered you just have to bridge/shortcut/remove the traditional switch. ---
**Author:** ![Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/roel_van_eyken/32/131031_2.png) [@Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://community.homey.app/u/Roel_Van_Eyken)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 8:58am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/3 "2025-04-05T08:58:57Z")
But what if I want to keep the original switch? ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 9:58am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/4 "2025-04-05T09:58:21Z")
You can keep the switch for esthetic reasons, but not for switching. So disconnect the two wires from the switch and connect them together. ---
**Author:** ![Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/roel_van_eyken/32/131031_2.png) [@Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://community.homey.app/u/Roel_Van_Eyken)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/5 "2025-04-05T12:30:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/6 "2025-04-05T13:15:22Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/roel_van_eyken/32/131031_2.png) [@Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://community.homey.app/u/Roel_Van_Eyken)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/7 "2025-04-29T13:43:07Z")
> [@Rmb](#): > > KlikAanKlikUit AWMT-003 Do you by any chance know of a Z-wave variant of this kind of product? (as the KlikAanKlikUit AWMT-003 is 433mhz product I believe which I’d like to avoid if I can help it). ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/8 "2025-04-29T19:45:32Z")
Aqara H1 Wireless Double Rocker, see [Smart Remotes & Buttons | Best Buy Guide](https://homey.app/en-nl/best-buy-guide/remotes-buttons/) ---
**Author:** ![Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/roel_van_eyken/32/131031_2.png) [@Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://community.homey.app/u/Roel_Van_Eyken)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/9 "2025-04-29T20:01:12Z")
Thanks for the suggestion! I am however looking for a built in switch as I, ideally, would want to reuse my existing traditional light switch (that and Aqara is a Chinese brand, whch I would like to avoid as much as I can). But thanks anyway for taking the time to respond! ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/10 "2025-04-29T21:42:30Z")
See [Seperate the input from output - Fibaro Smart Implant](https://community.homey.app/t/seperate-the-input-from-output-fibaro-smart-implant/28950) where Shelly 2.5 with detached mode is mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/roel_van_eyken/32/131031_2.png) [@Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://community.homey.app/u/Roel_Van_Eyken)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 9:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/11 "2025-05-02T09:57:14Z")
Ok, that’s indeed an interesting topic you linked here. Although (and this is probably just me), I still don’t actually understand what the potential problem with my setup would be (as to me it seems that the original poster in that topic had a different issue). I’m actually planning on using these: [https://www.fibaro.com/nl/products/switches/](https://www.fibaro.com/nl/products/switches/) rather than the smart implant as it seems to meet my needs just fine, provided I can wire both the traditional light switch and the Fibaro switch up to the power while also simultaniously bypassing the switch for my track lighting. Is there some context I’m missing here? (I’m very new to this home automation thing) ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/12 "2025-05-02T12:26:08Z")
Well the idea is that you connect your old switch to the Fibaro switch, and connect the lamps to the Fibaro switch. Then you “disconnect” on the Fibaro switch in the software the input from the output. That means that when you flip your old switch, the output of the Fibaro switch does not flip and the lamps are connected to the mains all the time. In Homey you can see that you flipped your old switch and run a flow. And in Homey you can, but don’t want to, switch the output so the lamps are switched off the mains. So you can alway control your hue light or smart lights from Homey. I am not yet shure how to “disconnect the input from the output” but I presume it will be like the smart implant. ---
**Author:** ![Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/roel_van_eyken/32/131031_2.png) [@Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://community.homey.app/u/Roel_Van_Eyken)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/13 "2025-05-12T05:18:59Z")
So, if I underarqnd you correctly, a shelly product (like a shelly 1pm 4th gen) in detached mode would accomplish that, right? ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 7:15am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/14 "2025-05-12T07:15:47Z")
Yes, how ever I have no experience with Shelly and don’t know how to set detached mode in Homey. Just search for “Shelly detached” or ask in the appropriate categorie. However you asked for a Z-wave device. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/b/3/b355819c6372f3384145848e5a0c2a85e92c1232.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/roel_van_eyken/32/131031_2.png) [@Roel\_Van\_Eyken](https://community.homey.app/u/Roel_Van_Eyken)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/15 "2025-05-14T18:23:21Z")
I got a tip from my father (who is far more versed in electricity than I am). And apparently he found out that a built in switch module exists which doesn’t have any internal physical switches and is purely made for sending z-wave signals to a hub. That device is called the shelly wave i4 > **[Shelly Wave i4](https://www.shelly.com/products/shelly-qubino-wave-i4)** > > Buy online Shelly Wave i4 at an irresistible price ⭐ Make your home smarter with a Shelly Wave i4 from a proven brand - Shelly I think this will do what I’m trying to achieve, yes? (the switches it should be connected to is 1 double switch and 1 single switch) ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-properly-integrate-track-lighting-into-smart-home/134092/16 "2025-05-14T22:06:24Z")
Correct. It has even 4 inputs. Maybe next time we can discuss with your father.😁