My toddler likes to get out of bed during her naptime and turn on the light in her room. I want to take away this ability. The room is not currently smart. I am willing to install a smart switch, smart bulbs, or both. I would like to be able to, during certain hours, prevent any lights from being t…

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I believe you would have to go with a smart bulb in this case. As far as I know manually operating a smart wall switch always over rides hub control.

[image] tlrdstd: My toddler likes to get out of bed during her naptime and turn on the light in her room. I want to take away this ability. Any physical switch, be it z-wave or zigbee (i.e., “smart”) is going to turn on its load when it is physically turned on. So having a smart switch won’t…

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Be aware that space in electrical boxes can be a problem. Depending on your situation, you may be able to place a microswitch in the light fixture instead. So you might want to open up that box, unscrew the switch from the box (without disconnecting it), to just see what you’ve got. The microswit…

[image] bravenel: Smart bulbs are one, but they will fall off the network if power to them is turned of This is a myth. I have over 20 GE link bulbs and 18 Hue bulbs. I turn their switches on and off every morning/night and they never fall off my network. When they are powered, I use them for…

I think what he meant is you can’t control them if the switch is off,

For my toddler, I set up a time window where the switch does come on, but it goes right back off again after 8pm. “On Switch On, After 8pm and before 7AM, Turn Light Switch Off” It works! The kid gives up after 10 or so presses.

Did you do this using CORE, or some other method?

I’m in the same boat. I should have read this before I bought a Z-Wave switch. Did you find any way to make it not even turn on? I have like 3 rules all fighting her even down to 30 seconds. My problem is she jams it on and off which kind of confuses SmartThings, maybe the status gets misaligned. I…

Entirely disable switch for a period of time?

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eibyer January 2, 2016, 6:47pm 2

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Entirely disable switch for a period of time?

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