Making my light switches smart - ZigBee, Shelly or others??

[katie279]

Hi all,

Mainly have hue lights around my house - maybe around 80 of them, however few rooms I hardly use - eg my utility room where I have 8 spotlights.

Kids are always leaving these lights on, so planning to turn them smart so they can switch off automatically after 2 minutes.

Don't think much value is replacing all the GU10s with hue lights for this, so think putting a relay switch in the light switch would let me achieve the same.

Looking online it appears Shelly 1s and ZigBee relays are used for this, but can't tell the difference/advantages between them both?

Any tips/advice?

Otherwise think I can just put a motion sensor in and the room will be fully automated!

 

[katie279]

Ah brilliant, didn't twig that Shelly's weren't mesh.

Yes, have a decent WiFi (orbi mesh), but I don't half hammer it 150+ devices easily. It's crossed my mind whether I should have an IOT mesh on one channel with a separate WiFi setup and then have a 'consumer' mesh WiFi with the other elements.

I saw thread being announced - will be interesting to see how this goes, I'm not sure how fundamental a change it'll be (ie could I flash a Shelly to newer compatible firmware or will it be new devices all round etc)??