This is probably the wrong place for this but I'll give it a try.
I have several outdoor downlights that are currently being controlled all at once with a WEMO wall switch.
I will be changing these out for white tunable Zigbee downlights.
Now comes the question?
Should I convert the WEMO wall switch back to a manual one and leave it turned on all the time or leave it and just change out the downlights to zigbee? This way the WEMO's which are wifi can be programmed on and then each individual downlights will be controllable. I am also planning to get rid of the WEMO's infavour of Zigbee switches eventually.
What have others done in such a case?
Thanks.
Glenn...
Well, I bought Hubitat because I read it would work with my entire house of Wemos, and it did! I was happy. I quickly learned that I was missing out by not having zigbee or zwave because the WeMo switches can't report back state changes easily. They work great for sending on and off commands, but if you manually press the switch it doesn't instantly report to Hubitat that it happened. You have to rely on hubitat doing a refresh which uses up resources. So I set off on a zwave journey and replaced nearly every switch with Inovelli switches which gave me alot more options like scenes and reporting. Its been 2 months now and while I'm mostly happy with this decision, I'm not super happy with zwave and or inovelli. Not sure why yet, but I get quite a few lights missing their commands when doing scenes from the inovelli switches themselves. If hubitat initiates the command by itself they work fine. My zigbee stuff however has been flawless. Completely flawless. I'm also still using several WeMo switches, mostly for out door lights at this point and they have also been flawless with hubitat.
