For some reason my electricians installed a mudring on an interior wall.
I have used Blue Series Smart Dimmers for pretty much EVERY SINGLE switch in my house, and I’m really liking them.
However, two blue’s won’t fit in a mudring. This is known.
I have a BUNCH of 3-ways and some 4 and 5 ways.
The way my electrician wired everything, we ended up having to basically make all of the 3-way switches function through zigbee bindings and group bindings.
Now, my question is:
Can I get a zigbee “dumb-ish” dimmer which I can then zigbee bind to my Innovelli Blue which controls the lights in my 3-way scenario?
Do you all know of one with a “SLIM” profile, so that I can fit it into the mudring with my other Blue Dimmer? This will solve my “2 Blue’s won’t fit in a mudring” problem. I only need a few mm’s…
I can’t see into your box to see what you have going on there, but can you possibly gracefully remove that mud ring and replace it with a box extender? The plastic box extenders are typically square, not rounded like mud rings. Plus they’re easy to hack up if need be.
@UngluedChalice So, I’m really intrigued by this idea. I feel like I’ll have to “open up” the entire corner of the mudring though. Is that not the case?
Can you attach a pic of where you filed down so they would fit?
Was it only that little front space that curves inward?
I am NOT shy about getting after that bastard with a big ass metal file…
I’ve had good luck getting some new mud rings from home depot. Seems that at least a couple of the new designs have much more open corners. I’ve just been cutting the drywall/ mud to the edge of the old mud ring, unscrewing it, pulling it out, then putting the new one in place. A standard 2-gang cover plate will cover past the edge of the mud ring, so I haven’t even had to re-mud
Oh boy, yes, I went through this. I was replacing two existing smart switches that were my remaining SmartThings vestigial devices (using ZigBee) with two White Series switches to get me entirely on Thread. I really thought it’d be simple considering I already fit two large smart dimmer switches in the box. Turns out the White Series switches were just slightly even larger, and I needed a millimeter or two of clearance due to the mudring. I tried snipping some of the round corner off, which did not work. I wanted to try filing like in an above reply but didn’t have the right tool (and the Dremel bit I bought wasn’t going to do the trick with my drill). My last resort was replacing the metal mudring with a plastic one pictured above…and honestly that should have just been the first step. It was dead simple to shave off some already crumbling drywall using a utility knife, then remove two screws from the mudring, pull it out, and install the square plastic replacement. Everything fit (well, just barely, I have more wires than I care to admit in this box) and I considered myself done. So that’s my recommendation.
This is the “Carlon 2-Gang 5/8 in. PVC ENT Box Mud Ring” for less than $3 at Home Depot. I tried the 1/2 in. first, it was too deep.
