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State Switch for Matter, Homekit or Zigbee? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de to c/homekit@lemmy.ml

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Does anyone know of a simple, battery powered state switch device for either Matter, Homekit or Zigbee? It should NOT be a wallsocket and specifically needs to keep a permanent on/off state.

My current plan is to be able to set an "On Vacation" state and base my automations around that but other usecases are possible as well.

I used to have this using a virtual switch in Homebridge that ran on a Raspi but this thing was too maintenance heavy and I would prefer a less hacky solution.

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[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

maybe use an apple shortcut somehow?

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

That won't work. It needs to be a state in the smart home so automations can check it and do things based on that. Same way they can check for current temperature or sunset/sunrise.