Hello,
First of all, we consciously decided against a full smart home system but would like to be able to control some of our electric roller shutters via smartphone or voice commands. (It was a cost issue, and our general contractor didn’t really have the expertise for it.) I came across the Shelly 2.5 devices.
Are they recommended? Are there better alternatives in the same price range?
Is there anything to consider with traditionally wired roller shutters that have switches at the room entrance? Since our shell construction is still in progress, we could still take some things into account if necessary.
Thanks for any information.
First of all, we consciously decided against a full smart home system but would like to be able to control some of our electric roller shutters via smartphone or voice commands. (It was a cost issue, and our general contractor didn’t really have the expertise for it.) I came across the Shelly 2.5 devices.
Are they recommended? Are there better alternatives in the same price range?
Is there anything to consider with traditionally wired roller shutters that have switches at the room entrance? Since our shell construction is still in progress, we could still take some things into account if necessary.
Thanks for any information.
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SamSamSam3 Nov 2021 18:35Stefan001 schrieb:
You don't lose anything at all, and you even gain the option to fully close without stopping halfway. Did I misunderstand, or did you? I thought with switches you just give a pulse once, and the roller shutter starts moving without needing to hold the switch down?!
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SamSamSam3 Nov 2021 18:39Thank you very much for the active participation. I have also considered using deep back boxes for that reason, but the point about push buttons instead of switches is a good one so they don’t end up in confusing positions.
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Grobmutant3 Nov 2021 19:50Another advantage of push buttons is that you can differentiate between a short press, a long press, and holding down the button.
Stefan001 schrieb:
edit: We have 2 switches per roller shutter. Unfortunately, I don’t know how it looks with a rocker switch. It looks the same. Push buttons can also come with a rocker for up and down on special request, but they don’t stay in the pressed position. Alternatively, you can use a push button with two press points (up and down on one rocker). In general, push buttons, as others have also mentioned, have only advantages.
In der Ruine4 Nov 2021 09:23SamSamSam schrieb:
Did I misunderstand, or did you? I thought with push buttons you just give one impulse, and the roller shutter moves without having to keep the button pressed?! Of course, you don’t need to keep holding the push button. The push button sends a pulse to the Shelly device, and it then operates the roller shutter completely.
It’s good that people with switches don’t give wrong information about push buttons here *shaking head*
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Stefan0014 Nov 2021 10:35In der Ruine schrieb:
Of course, you don’t have to hold down the push button. The push button sends a pulse to the Shelly, which then fully opens or closes the roller shutter.
It’s good that some people with switches give wrong information about push buttons *shakes head* What the Shelly does with the pulse from the push button is not really a characteristic of the push button itself, so no incorrect information about push buttons was given here.
But it’s true, I hadn’t considered the configuration option. So there is no difference (except in the specific way it’s operated) between a push button and a switch when used with the Shelly, right?
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