I’m looking at putting in 13 White on/off switches and dimmers and connecting them to a SmartThings Hub (Matter over Thread) and was hoping to get some feedback if I might run into any potential issues.
All setups have a Neutral and Line in the box.
1.Most of my setups will be a single on/off switch directly controlling an LED light bulb.
I need 100% uptime, I can’t rely on and sort of hub or automation that if communication is lost the lights don’t work.
Has anyone had any problems at all with 100% direct control? (which would mostly be mechanical failures I think)
2.I’ll have two 3 way setups that would use a white on/off and an Aux switch WITH a traveler.
Again I need 100% uptime on this, no automation or hub.
Has anyone had any problems at all with 3 way 100% direct control? (issue between a hardwired aux and on/off switch)
3.One location will been an on/off in Smart Mode always powering a Hue Light.
It won’t actually be controlling the Hue light through SmartThings, I have the Hue tap dial for that. I’m only powering the lights through the on/off switch so I can air gap the lights if needed rather than flipping a breaker.
Has anyone had any issues with the white on/off switch holding it’s relay on indefinitely?
I can hardwire the hue lights and not use the relay at all if there’s any risk of failure for the relay being continually energized.
4.I have one 4 way location that I plan to use 3 white dimmer to control 2 hue bulbs.
The dimmers will control the a hardwired Hue lights through SmartThings (hue bulb not going through the dimmers direct hardwired). I have a Hue hub so it will be local with SmartThings.
Has anyone had any issues with 3 dimmers controlling 2 hue bulbs through SmartThings with local automation?
I understand that both SmartThings and Hue hubs need to be up for it to work. But is there issues when everything is up and things just don’t work and need resetting?
5.For all the switches I plan to use the LED bars through SmartThings to indicate when doors are unlocked or open. Some will be a single SmartThings door contact, others will look at multiple ones (if any 3 are open it’s red to indicate something is open). Then when they are all close they will either turn off or go green, something like that.
Has any one had any issues with controlling the led bars on the on/off switch or dimmer through SmartThings to indicate if a door is open or unlocked?
Is it fairly quick response? Like within 1 second?
I’m doing a door lock now with the light on a single older on/off Red switch (with the tiny led on it) and it works about 95% of the time, but would be taking it up a notch with all all my locks and door and window sensor.
Just trying to get an idea of what issues I may encounter.
Thanks