Hi Thorsten,
My own experience is that WiFi works fine until you get into very dense housing situations. Then you can run into some interference issues. ?
Writing articles and testing products I¡¯m amazed at how the number of IoT products in my home has grown. Over a dozen Alexa devices, Shelly products, laptops, smartphones/tablets, and the list goes on.? In my own home I don¡¯t notice any issues.?
I am using a firewalla to better monitor what is going on with everything.?
Most of the keypads I personally use a Crestron CLX-EX light switches.? I outfit most with 4 buttons and utilize those buttons for lots of different functions around the house besides controlling lighting. The integration of Alexa voice commands has also minimized ten news for dedicated keypads.?
That being said, if you want to stay in the Shelly world you can use a Shelly i3 and add your own switches to it.? If you want a broader array of options then, as zac.sparrow suggested, add a Hubitat Hub and that will give you lots of options to choose from.? I¡¯m using some from Aeotec and they work very well.
I hope this helps
Jay
Oh, and bonus question:
What?s the preferred solution for wireless push-buttons?
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Cheers, Thorsten
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Hi Jay,
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i did some testing yesterday (incl. your Crestron modules) and i?m pretty impressed.
I?d prefer to have them in client mode rather than in AP mode by default since it adds an extra step to the configuration, but overall it seems to be a very nice little device.
However, i?m still a bit skeptical about using wifi because it?s more prone to interference compared to other ¡°traditional¡± wireless home automation standards. So what?s your experience on that?
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Next week, i?ll integrate one Shelly at my friend?s house for testing to get some real world experience myself.
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Cheers, Thorsten
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Just a few weeks back I wrote a detailed article about Shelly IoT relays.? One of them could probably handle this very easily and the relays are small enough to go in the box with the outlet itself.? And, I've already written the Crestron-Shelly driver modules for you.
Hope this helps
Jay
On 2/7/2021 12:46 PM, Thorsten K?hler wrote:
Hi,
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i?ve got a (resi) client who would like to make a standard EU 230V power wall plug switchable via Crestron, wireless.
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What is the preferred solution for that?
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I think the best way would be to have the wall plug switchable via relais in the power distribution, but what do you do If that?s not possible?
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Cheers, Thorsten
