Hey, so buying a bunch of smart bulbs to have smart lighting in your house can get
ridiculously expensive
But you still want to have a smart lighting in your house. Well, how about installing one?
Smart light switch that controls them all in this video. We're gonna look at the maxi
Oh smart wall light switch and see how it goes
Let's see the intro
Hey, what's up guys here at gross Tech our goal is to simplify?
smart home technology
Whether that's installation use or setup that is our goal to help you guys and this video is
Goes along right with it?
We're talking about smart
Lighting now does that mean that when you walk in a room the lights come on. Yes does that mean that you can say hey?
Smart voice assistant turn on my light yes, but more than that it means
Controlling everything automatically and to be able to set up schedules and everything like that, but with
Bulbs it can get so expensive
You have the lifx bulbs or the philips hue bulbs and they're close to 50 bucks a bulb I have
25
lightbulbs in this house
That's over a grand. That's ridiculous
I'm not gonna spend that much money to have smart lighting in my house and
That's what we're gonna look at today, we're gonna look at the Maxiell smart wall light switch now
There's other brands levitron
ecobee just came out with their new one, but this one was sent to us by Mac Co, it's
$25 I'll put a link in the
Description below that will take you to Amazon as well as the levitron and to the ecobee because they're all
There to help the idea and keep you from spending
thousands of dollars on light bulbs
Think about it
Every light switch controls either one or multiple light bulbs like this fan ceiling fan lights that we have here in this office
It's got four bulbs in it that means I would have to spend
$200 at least to just have smart lighting in here
And then I don't even have a switch to really control it I have to find my phone right to say hey
Somebody turn on my light or turn it off that can get annoying well
That's what we're gonna look at this Mac seals wall light switch, so let's look inside here. We've got the manual
We've got the switch itself, which is simple. We've got rocker switches here at home
Looks a lot like a rocker switch. It's just a button though
For wires now. This is where you need to make sure to see what you have in your wall as far as the wiring
Most if not all smart light switches need a neutral or a white wire
They have the ground your load, which is the wire that goes up to the light, and then your hot wire well?
But you also need the neutral wire so make sure before you buy anything make sure you've got that neutral wire
What else do we got in here? We've got a wall plate, which is nice to fit along and the mounting screws for it
So let's switch off the breaker
So we're safe here make sure before you do any of this if you're not an electrician
Don't do this if you're comfortable with electricity and you're comfortable switching this out
Hey, that's all on you not on me, so please be careful if you do decide to do that yourself
But let's bring it in and actually
install this
All right now one thing I did before I switch the breaker off. I figured out
What is my hot wire coming in from the panel and what is the load going to the?
Ceiling so make sure you figure that out
Before you turn the breaker off
Alright, so we got the breaker back on. Let's test it
turns light on
Turns it off alright turn that back on. We'll grab our
mounting screws and
Now that our smart light switch is installed and
operational
As you can see it turns it on and off with the actual switch, which is nice
You don't have to go find some smart device to turn your light on grab your phone
And you will want to go and get the smart life app now smart life
And the tire smart app are pretty much the same thing
I already have the tightest mark app installed for some outlets as well
So we're going to use that go ahead and open it up, but it'll look exactly the same here. We will want to add
Which is the plus button up in the top?
Now we want to do a wall switch
Now to make sure it's in
Blinking mode hold the button down for five seconds so now that the latest switch we want to confirm
rapidly go ahead and put your
Password in for your Wi-Fi, and it is connecting now
So now we're just gonna let it
Connect through the system all right so that device is added. I'm gonna rename this to the office
Lights
Save
dumb
Now and that's got a new firmware always make sure you update your firmware all right
We're gonna turn it on light comes on turn off and lights are off now
The cool thing that you can also do with this is you can
Have a timer you
Can set up timing as in times that this turns on and off automatically?
so now you can actually use your like I'm gonna use the Google assistant to do this by make sure your
You are linked with the tire smart or your smart life app is linked to your
Google home or your Amazon
echo and there you go now with everything installed on your phone and
Linked you can now control this with your voice with your phone
With the simple push of a button it all will work, and that's the point of smart lighting
It's not so much that it makes it difficult
And it's more difficult to use than the dumb alternative just the normal switch
But makes the ability to turn it off and on with every option. Hey, so thanks for watching again
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