Old wiring and Z-wave switched: No Neutral. Any options?

[JDRoberts]

@turboc

Watch out for the hue bulbs. The last I heard if they lose power, they don’t come back on in their last state, they come on full white light and Phillips is citing legal reasons for not changing it. So when my kids turn off the lights at night at the switch, the lights are of course now unreachable, and when they do come back to life, they are bright white and on, even if their last state was off.

Smart bulbs are intended to always have power available (see the user guide), but you can solve the switch issue in many different ways.

See the following FAQ (this is a clickable link)

FAQ: Philips Hue and Other Smart Bulbs - What sort of light switches to use with them? (Long FAQ)

Thinking on a big move to Hue lights, the real question is - what switches to use with them? If they’re all automatable via ST and other devices, do I really want to put them all on controllable switches too? There’s the advantage that I can arrange to ensure those switches are on so that the the Hue bulbs would be too…but it also leaves open the ability for folks to just turn them off and leave them off. Hmm. Thoughts?