I’m looking for some good zigbee or thread wall dimmers for some hall lights, and I’d rather not use wifi if I can avoid it. The only thing I’ve been able to find on Amazon has been the Embrighten switches. Any suggestions?
All my stuff is wifi based so I can’t really help with that, sorry.
I just ripped out my insteon system and replaced it with Caseta. I wanted the “device-to-device” response speed.
It doesn’t work unless you want those MadKatz looking remotes on your wall. The two button remotes send all linked devices to full power, so I process them in Home Assistant. Home assistant is fast enough to process the commands, but the lutton protocol doesn’t have any sort of acknowledgement on the wireless side, it just keeps on blasting for 1.4 seconds. Good for reliability, awful for latency… So for 1.4 seconds after an action, the hub waits for the first device to stop transmitting before it sends commands to the rest of the devices.
I’m going to try some “scene” remotes and maybe get it to be acceptably quick but there are still limitations.
ZigBee is so good, they made thread. Z-wave is so good, there are 4 versions. Matter over thread is what I wanted but that’s vaporware for now. Considering what I know now, I would probably have gone with esphome or tasmota dimmers. I was worried about them mucking up my wifi, but they’re the only things I have on 2.4 and the scene controllers and garage controllers have been solid.
This is good to know, I have a whole home Insteon setup now, will probably have to replace it at some point since they went under…
I replaced a few switches with a Zooz Z-Wave switch. It’s fast enough but it’s paired with ZigBee lights, so I have to use a #HomeAssistant automation to sync up the dimming. Not ideal so I didn’t replace any more switches yet.
Leviton Zwave. They work great and should go fine with matter.
I’m thinking of buying Candeo, what do you guys think?
I’m in the UK and using Zigbee dimmer modules from Samotech, which match the style of traditional dumb dimmer switches in my country. There are similar models available from Candeo and others.
I’ve also been experimenting recently with a Shelly Dimmer2 module.
