The Enbrighten Zigbee switches I installed in some rooms work exactly as you note, if the zigbee network collapses for some reason, they still control the outlet or light they are hard wired to like any other dumb switch. I think for hardwired switches this is the normal behavior. For anything like Hue or Ikea Tradfri switches that are battery powered I think it highly depends on what they are connected to.
Home Automation
Discussion about general home automation ideas and projects, home automation protocols like Z-wave, Zigbee, Matter, etc, and home automation software and hubs like HomeSeer, Home Assistant, OpenHAB, Homey.
Thanks! I made an update to the OP if you want to see what I ended up doing.
Wemo switches work like normal switches when the network is out. They even run any schedules they knew about before the outage.
Thanks! I made an update to the OP if you want to see what I ended up doing.
Cool!
Yeah, the Wemos also were a right fit. And whoever built my house seems like they actually spent extra time doing the job poorly.
Shelly dimmers behave like that. I might have changed a setting here and there in stock firmware but they also integrated into home assistant with an import script someone posted on the HA forums, no need for some app. The ones I have are WiFi though.
Thanks! I made an update to the OP if you want to see what I ended up doing.
I believe the Inovelli Blue Series dimmer switch does exactly this. I have it networked through some zigbee usb controller I bought and is entirely managed via Home Assistant. I haven’t tested it non-networked but I don’t think there would be any issue using the functionality directly from the switch.
But it can also work the other way if you want to
Inovelli blue in the standard configuration works like a switch. Without a hub, it’s still a switch
However you can also configure it passthrough - always pass power through and act as a Zigbee button. In that case I’d expect a direct pairing to still work like a switch. However I believe you can passthrough but not be paired directly to the device so maybe that configuration would not work if the hub died
Thanks! I made an update to the OP if you want to see what I ended up doing.