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Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Anyone know why these are breaking?

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[–] Friendly_Engineer_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Any device that has moving parts will wear out at some point. These look like someone has been slapping those pretty good

[–] Z-Waver@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It's inexcusable that these smart switches break like this after a few short years, when the traditional switches that they replaced were still undamaged or worn after decades of use. It infuriates me that the $3 switch can last decades but the $35-60 switch breaks after 3-5 years.

[–] Zdra23gon@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

New-a few months old. Light normal use. Two possibilities from other sources-

  1. Wires too tight pushing toggles out
  2. Box too small-cheaper version Never experienced this before!