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Single Gang Box with two switches
LostDog88:
How do y'all handle this situation?
I would like to automate even the bathroom switches.
Currently there is a single gang box with two switches. I cannot find a like replacement from X10. Is there any way to control a light and fan separately without changing out the box. Everything I can find is a rocker switch that requires a double gang box to keep two switches that are X10 compatible.
Any ideas?
brobin:
Assuming they still control X10, the Insteon Remote Control Dimmer KeypadLinc #2334 is your best bet along with an XPFM Inline Receiver Module. The keypad can directly control the lighting fixture with on/off/dim (or use the 2487 for on/off) and send X10 commands to 5 or 7 other devices depending on which keypad you choose. You can use one of the other buttons to toggle the fan by sending on/off commands to the XPFM which can be mounted in or above the fan housing. Then just wirenut hot to the fan wire in the existing box.
Tuicemen:
Since you have posted about watching switch conditions as well, have a look at the X10 pro key pads https://www.x10.com/x10-pro/in-wall-keypads.html
Then depending on the number of switches you go with use inline modules https://www.x10.com/x10-pro/modules/xpfm.html
>!
LostDog88:
--- Quote from: Tuicemen on October 25, 2018, 07:49:18 AM ---have a look at the X10 pro key pads https://www.x10.com/x10-pro/in-wall-keypads.html
Then depending on the number of switches you go with use inline modules https://www.x10.com/x10-pro/modules/xpfm.html
>!
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I like the idea of two switches....but I am thinking (please, understand i can be very slow sometimes) that I would need to control modules. One for the lights and one for the fan?
LostDog88:
--- Quote from: brobin on October 25, 2018, 12:57:43 AM ---Assuming they still control X10, the Insteon Remote Control Dimmer KeypadLinc #2334 is your best bet along with an XPFM Inline Receiver Module. The keypad can directly control the lighting fixture with on/off/dim (or use the 2487 for on/off) and send X10 commands to 5 or 7 other devices depending on which keypad you choose. You can use one of the other buttons to toggle the fan by sending on/off commands to the XPFM which can be mounted in or above the fan housing. Then just wirenut hot to the fan wire in the existing box.
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I like this idea the best except that it appears that there are 6 switches on the face of this. I am certain that the people in my wife's (believe me, i deal with this every day) will never figure out how to turn off a light or turn on a fan or there are a million ways they would screw this up and get lost in the bathroom. LOL.
Is there just a two switch option? I checked, but it seems then I would have to have controller modules in the boxes of the light and the fan. Will they fit in the box that is existing?
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