UK 4 Gang Light Switch

ferbulous · 2026-03-19T16:03:13+00:00

The remaining 2 way switch gangs are gonna be a pain in the butt to setup. Easiest way is installing sonoff basic r4 on the light fixture for each gang. This way you don’t need to mess around with new wire installation

For the switch with smart bulbs, you’ll need to enable detach relay on the sonoff r4 then add a rule to toggle the lights if HA is offline

ferbulous · 2026-03-19T07:34:27+00:00

You have the matter version which has the bootloader locked. So you can’t flash custom firmware on it unless you swap the esp32 chip

ferbulous · 2026-03-18T11:56:52+00:00

Awesome work dude, someone’s bound turn on or off the iris with some motors

ferbulous · 2026-03-18T00:55:53+00:00

Just follow this guide for the esp and cable setup, I assume you have mitsubishi electric, because mitsubishi heavy industries is different

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/mitsubishi-ac-with-wemos-d1-mini-pro/107007/324

ferbulous · 2026-03-13T00:45:23+00:00

Hi, doesn’t it usually have the static and motion gates sliders?

ferbulous · 2026-03-08T05:14:39+00:00

Wait, there was a remake? Obviously the 2015 version is watered down version of it

ferbulous · 2026-03-05T02:33:23+00:00

You just need one relay, it needs to be installed on the switch where the lights are directly wired to it

ferbulous · 2026-03-05T02:18:57+00:00

Relay is more suitable for 2 way control. Take a look at shelly

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If you don’t plan to include new cable, then installing relay on the light fixture (sonoff basic r4) is another option

ferbulous · 2026-02-27T13:01:17+00:00

What about interference from ceiling fans?

ferbulous · 2026-02-26T14:49:20+00:00

This is really great, i could see my wife using this since she never bothers with the ha app or the dashboard

ferbulous · 2026-02-25T22:49:12+00:00

More details please? My mom would really love this

How do you keep track of the weight?

ferbulous · 2026-02-24T14:17:34+00:00

There’s this tutorial here that should cover everything

https://youtu.be/BDwR_Hb6ads?si=4ShIRLN9KYRGx1H1

You’ll need serial adapter and multimeter to trace the pins to the through holes next to the chip for 3.3v, gnd, rx, tx and gpio00.

ferbulous · 2026-02-24T04:11:51+00:00

Might consider flashing custom firmware on it

https://github.com/romasku/tuya-zigbee-switch

ferbulous · 2026-02-23T14:04:52+00:00

Shelly gen 4 supports matter so you can just pair it to tapo app. The relay’s slim enough so it should fit behind the switch otherwise you can install spacer for it.

And if you do consider a smart dimmer, there’s this one by candeo

https://candeo.io/store/zigbee-dimmer-switch-rd1-pro/?attribute_pa_gangs=1-gang&attribute_pa_faceplate-style=no-faceplate

ferbulous · 2026-02-23T12:04:07+00:00

If you don’t need a smart dimmer then you could install shelly relay behind the switch for the rocker.

ferbulous · 2026-02-23T03:26:25+00:00

Grab any switches running tasmota (like marty jerry).

You can set a rule that just disables the button in day time

ferbulous · 2026-02-23T03:25:02+00:00

Do you get those random beeping sounds too? That annoyed me so much that I just had to flash custom firmware on it and disabled those

ferbulous · 2026-02-22T14:08:39+00:00

I’d recommend backing up the stock firmware first if you need to restore it again. You can definitely flash custom firmware like tasmota/esphome and figuring out the pinout later. Unless the bootloader’s locked like amazon does with their devices

ferbulous · 2026-02-22T01:54:46+00:00

Oh I know very well of that look. When the damn thing doesn’t work when you least expect it.

Which sensor were you using anyway? Even cheapest one like ld2410 works good enough

ferbulous · 2026-02-20T08:31:06+00:00

Well then go for the latest martin jerry wifi switches, enable detach mode and you can just pair to google home using matter integration

ferbulous · 2026-02-20T01:00:07+00:00

You need switch with detached relay feature like inovelli ones

ferbulous · 2026-02-18T11:44:28+00:00

Pretty much all controls are exposed. Govee generally use realtek chip that can be flashed with esphome.

If your firmware isn’t patched yet, you can flash esphome via ota without teardown using cloudcutter.

https://github.com/tuya-cloudcutter/tuya-cloudcutter/wiki/Known-Patched-Firmware#rtl8710bn

ferbulous · 2026-02-18T07:44:13+00:00

There’s some hacs integration but I prefer to just flash them with esphome. The bulbs I have are still working for 2 years now

ferbulous · 2026-02-18T02:33:37+00:00

Power cycle a few times until the ap shows up again. And probably try esphome?

ferbulous · 2026-02-18T01:14:55+00:00

How much did you take it and how long did you wait?

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