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I have 2 X 2 gangs sitting on my entry table that I was going to test with.

My life keeps complaining about me going to install them myself and wants an electrician to do it. But If I'm going to get a sparky i would prefer to change all the switches at once.

Does anyone have these up and running and have they been reliable?

Which one's mate the Nue's or Deta's? I've got a few Nue's in now and they've been working great.

Nue's sorry.

Thought i quoted the post above. Same model as these

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My 3-gang has been working fine, though I haven't done too much with it in HE, but the initial tests seemed fine.

My only other advice would be to always start small with anything new you want to introduce. I typically buy one or two of any new device and try to use them for a period of time until I feel comfortable they will work and I understand any issues I may run into.

Yep same as mine, i have 2 x 2 gangs, 2 x single gangs and a 3 gang. They've all been faultless over a couple of months. Being able to still control the light as a normal switch is a big plus at my place plus they look pretty nice imho.

I've got 1, 2 & 3gang Nue's across our newly built house and they have all been great. The only ones I had issues with was the 1gang's dimmers due to compatibility or failing/dropping off but the non-dim-able options have all been rock solid so clearly a different range. It's fine we never dimmed anyways so they were switched out with Deta's which have also been really good.

I also use some of my 3gang Nue switches as "virtual buttons" to control other things such as our internal Somfy blinds , WiFi lighting and hallway lights as I didn't want 2-way lights.

Thanks, guess ill pay to get the 2 x 2gangs installed and avoid the argument with the wife.

I have a 2 way switch on my stairs, anyone have experience with them in this enviroment? Or better off disabling the 2 way and just using one as virtual button

Will work with two way switching but your led colour will be out of sync with the light itself. you could create a rule in rule machine that switced both switches at the same time to keep them in sync.

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Yep, or there is an app that does this too. Rule Machine would be just as good though.

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@jchurch I'm getting closer to getting my rollers motorised and I checked recently with Bond and they don't currently delivery to Aus. Did you just get in early, or find some other way to get your hands on one?

If I can't get one, are you aware of any other options for somfy?

Excellent. I recently had 3 Somfy hard-wired motorised blinds installed on my rear deck they are very nice and work with the Bond like the battery Somfy's I have inside. Anyways I ordered the Bond from Ebay (US) there are plenty on there see examples here and here, Ebay allow you to pay a flat fee with their Global Shipping Program.

I have seen this before but you cannot connect to it locally only over IFTTT so it's not a route i'd go. The Bond Home has a local API.

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Thanks @jchurch, I'll check out the eBay options

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My mate printed this Bond mount out for me on the weekend and delivered it today. I wanted to mount it away and it fits great. You need to print to 1250% though otherwise it's tiny, lucky i noticed that in the comments :stuck_out_tongue:

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I've taken the plunge. Have ordered my bond hub, it should be here in about 3 weeks or so. Thanks again for your help @jchurch.

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Excellent, you'll be really happy with it. btw, you can find all the HE drivers for it here and the Bondhome community here.

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Just and FYI:
I'm currently not seeing the one I'm testing with, acting as repeater but I've just wired it so I'll give it a few more days to settle but I'm guessing it will require a specific driver to enable the routing. :frowning:

I have been running mine for months and can confirm it's basically another Nue switch e.g. you won't see it in the HE zigbee logs but it functions really well, is reliable and works perfectly with Xiaomi. I am not the only one either just ask my mate @markus

EDIT: have you checked using an Xbee I don't think ever did for my Sonoff but maybe @markus can confirm anyways here.

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For it to be routing traffic you don't need a specific driver. However, the built-in Ikea Repeater driver has some commands you can use to see what is connected to it. It works with my Xbees and the Sonoff one. I've seen that it doesn't work with all Xbees though, not sure why.

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Ok cool. Yeah, the BasicZBR3 gets detected as a "Generic Zigbee Switch" and I've just now changed it to "Nue Zigbee Switch" to see if that "enables" Repeating capability.
I'm hoping it'll pick up my shed mounted Iris motion and act as another route back to the HE hub. :slight_smile:

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Interesting.
Good thing I have some time on my hands these days. LOL

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