HomeKit

676 readers

4 users here now

An unofficial community to discuss Apple's HomeKit systems, devices, and the service as a whole.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

State Switch for Matter, Homekit or Zigbee? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Does anyone know of a simple, battery powered state switch device for either Matter, Homekit or Zigbee? It should NOT be a wallsocket and specifically needs to keep a permanent on/off state.

My current plan is to be able to set an "On Vacation" state and base my automations around that but other usecases are possible as well.

I used to have this using a virtual switch in Homebridge that ran on a Raspi but this thing was too maintenance heavy and I would prefer a less hacky solution.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Because I was only using it for this one thing and it was kinda over the top. In the past I used Homebridge for everything because Homekit was still new and it was hard to get any affordable devices to work with it. But over time only this one plugin was leftover.

I’m not completely against hacky solutions but was just hoping there is something simple like an actual button. That is for me always the first solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It'd be hard to find an actual product because your use case is rather niche and all of those platforms have and expensive certification process. You can DIY a matter solution the easiest, though, there's plenty of devkits for standalone matter devices.