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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Research: Does your wall switch have a Neutral Wire? From 1-10, how much do you need a no-neutral required smart switch? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by alisaif5@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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[–] AJiffyBoogle@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've also installed sonoff mini's at the switch but I've used the no neutral version.
I'm guessing you've been lucky enough to have neutral's at the switch then?

My house is 2 year old and annoyingly no neutrals rang to any light switches!

[–] umognog@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the loop@switch basically puts the feed from switch to switch, which is now almost universal to new builds because of how much it benefits downlight installations and how popular they are.

Only the switched live goes up to the roof.

In older houses, loop @ rose was common as a single twin & earth could go to the switch, with red/brown taking a live current to the switch and the black/blue taking a switched live back to the light. These should be marked with brown sleeving over the blue to indicate it's a switched live line.

In these instances (as commented by others) you can take down the ceiling rose and access the permanent live & neutral as well as switch wires from there instead.

Sounds like your house builder was very much "the old ways" though as it's really uncommon in new builds to still do it at the ceiling rose.

[–] AJiffyBoogle@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yea, I was rather disappointed when we moved in to find it this way!