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…

[image] 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.

But what if I want to keep the original switch?

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

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.

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 “smar…

[image] 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).

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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!

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 thes…

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See Seperate the input from output - Fibaro Smart Implant where Shelly 2.5 with detached mode is mentioned.

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