Looking for wall controller that looks like a switch

[JDRoberts]

@Ghostrider

A while ago, I remember seeing a remote switch that looked like a regular decora wall switch, but it was actually a remote that runs on a battery, and sticks to the wall. So you can basically add a light switch anywhere you want. I saw them on Amazon, and saw a video on YouTube about them. but now I can’t find them. Anyone have any ideas on this one?

It’s likely you are referring to the Eaton Cooper “anyplace” switch which is a zwave device and one of the first of this kind. It came out several years ago.

Now there are several from different companies, but as @gzsbado mentioned The selection does vary by country.

You can start with the following thread and that might have what you want. The Eaton Cooper is not listed there because it doesn’t at present work with the new V3 app. same with the Ecolink. But there are a few that are confirmed to work with the current platform, including the Zooz mentioned above. (The zooz is a brand new device, so probably not the one you saw before, but becoming very popular.)

Here’s the FAQ (the topic title is a clickable link)

[2021] Battery Power Switches and Buttons [NEEDS UPDATING]

A lot has changed with these even over the last few months. Please feel free to add an entry for anything you are familiar with and know works and indicate whether it is available in the US or the UK and if it requires custom code. Include a link to the topic that has the custom DTH or Edge Driver if you know it. Also, I know some of the zigbee devices have hardcoded groups and so the first one will work great and then if you add another one it will control the same devices as the first one. feel free to add any notes for anything like that. Zigbee and Zwave devices will require a smartthings hub. Cloud to cloud devices will not. Some devices may require their own bridge or base station in order to communicate with smartthings. This should all go in the wiki, but I can’t edit tables eas…