i'm going to add i think i want to control your light as well Gary
again on the app again i'm just going to add another UK style switch
today we're going to look at these RetroTouch switches with EnOcean battery free technology
you do you get a little bit excited uh when it comes to wireless switches
um but these ones what's a problem sometimes Gary with these uh various flavors that are around yeah
some of the manufacturers of these switches they don't look that pretty and can stand out in a room
of being completely different than a switch you normally see at a wall yeah so the great thing
about these ones so this first off they have a glass front yeah just something we haven't
seen before so this Retro Touch range matches a range of wiring accessories as well so that's
the first great thing the second great thing is the EnOcean technology so the other problem you
have with a lot of these kinetics so let's think where does it get the back where does it get the
power from Gary there's no batteries yeah there is no batteries there are no cables in them either so
obviously as we operate the switch you hear that click actually that is movement so kinetic energy
the kinetic energy will send a signal usually a radio frequency signal but you'll see in this
video that also it can work on Bluetooth and that harvests that energy in order to turn on
a receiver or offer receiver yeah so we've looked at a few flavors of this before but problem with a
lot of the ones in the market is they're tied to a particular manufacturer yeah so imagine
you've done a large install in a house and suddenly that manufacturer is no longer there
or not supporting that range of products you could end up in a challenging conversation with
the customer the great thing about EnOcean is was the original wireless a battery free technology
protocol and it is supported across lots of manufacturers we'll see here today we've got
modules that receive the signal from different manufacturers and obviously there is a degree
of compatibility there's a few different flavors depending on where you are in the world
i'm also going to introduce this new Bluetooth version as well and that's fantastic isn't it
that we know that because so many manufacturers are behind the EnOcean part of the technology that
that will continue on and also you've hinted out there that other electrical accessories that match
this so you can get a socket outlet in exactly the same design so therefore your switches and sockets
in that room will actually match that's that's it so should we have a look at how it works so let's
bring it up so the first one i'm going to look at is this simple switching module here and this
uses an 868 megahertz uh wireless communication protocol okay um so here's a switch so look if
you look at that beautiful glass front so at the moment it doesn't do anything okay that's not very
good you can hear that click that's the that's the energy harvesting going on so we're now going to
pair it to this module here so this module here so imagine this was it out in the garden okay
so this is for garden lighting i see you've got some IP rated LED strip up here this is mounted
on a post but of course you want to switch it from back inside the house exactly so i'm going
to put this receiver module into pairing mode so press that three times okay you'll see the
LED strip that's flashing there's a red led coming in and then i simply
press this switch and there you go i've paired it no wow so that's incredibly easy no apps involved
that's always keeps Gary happy it does keep me happy so simple process and we can go on and
pair other switches to it so we make two way two way and intermediate and add loads more switches
but that's incredibly simple and you can see it now can you feed runs around the garden goes to a
post and then you've got that switch at the back door yeah or you're in a challenge and retrofit
situation in an existing house you don't want to rip up yeah expensive wooden floor or it's just
generally difficult to run a cable route that's got you covered you've got another version there
Gary which is actually a dimming version as well yeah so we've set this up obviously we've got the
box in here we've got a receiver in there and we've got some dimmable LED downlight so i can
do the exactly the same process we've paired it already you'll see plenty of pairing processes
throughout the video so haven't paired this one so we've got the ability to operate the
switch so we can have it coming on and off as if it's a normal switch okay so let's let's turn it
turn it on yeah okay and then if i do it yeah i'll hold it hopefully we'll see that this will dim
down so as we look here so we got it and back up and then we can dim all the way down again by just
simply holding the button yeah and that's because that's an inline dimmer it's got a neutral supply
of that dimmer as well you do get you know should i suggest a better quality dimming than they might
do with a conventional rotary dimmer where you're always in that trade-off situation between the
yeah the fixture and the dimmer that's good Gary but uh what if uh what if i wanted also to control
this outdoor light from the same switch as your uh as your downlight top and because you like the
mouse oh we could perhaps suggest that this was led strip now we say under under kitchen cupboards
so that the main lights in the kitchen and work so we'll do whatever yeah so you're gonna pair
this one to there so yeah currently i'm okay with this one so exactly the same process
yep so you're gonna press that three times three times okay so that's in pairing mode yeah operate
my switch did the light change on that it did yeah that seemed incredibly easy so if i press it again
yeah down yeah so we've got yeah and the yeah the downlight's gone so let's watch
okay okay they're the wrong way around though they are the wrong way around should we try we'll we'll
undo it okay undo the pairing so i'll undo the pairing so again i put it into three presses
okay and you press okay so mine is on yours is on okay let's try again so i press it yeah okay
so that's now they're both off they're both off right on them let's have another try one two three
you're in pairing mode so i've got to make sure now i press this in the same so that so that's
positioned there yep so you're paired up there on off on off well that's that's great it's just so
two way dip two different completely different circuits using that technology yeah and there's
obviously the combination you could do but if you wanted to add multiple switching points in
a room instead of not like intermediate wiring carry and all you like don't need any cables
intermediate wiring not needed okay so that's it that's that's that's right so i would i would say
i don't want to say entry level but that's sort of like the first flavoring of it this is the
original version is it that radio frequency signal being picked up by a receiver that's simply paired
but we also hinted that there was a Bluetooth version didn't we Gordon yeah and that it brings
in another degree of control because obviously you can use an app on a phone however it also i think
it makes it easier to commission because obviously there were we're juggling yeah multiple presses of
switches in different orders and things like that then obviously and obviously in this case we had
to get inside to put a triggering button in there to get into a setup mode okay we're gonna do now
we have left this one off we didn't need to so let's have a quick look at what we've got here
then so this is a Kozee controller okay um so this is a dual output so it's got two switched outputs
okay two channels then effectively two shelves just again uh there's our uh supply in yeah and
then obviously two switched outputs and i've paired these down to these five amp um five amp
round pen plugs okay that i've connected up to two wall lights here and you can clearly see on there
okay on that receiver the Bluetooth uh symbol yeah okay so i'm gonna bring in so let's bring
this one back in so i'm gonna bring your phone in yeah and you've downloaded let's get this clear
because you said that we've downloaded the app and then you're going to do the next thing yeah
so nothing else there's no jiggery pokery in here it's just the next thing yeah yeah so let's bring
those out let's have a little look so i've got your Kozee app okay um so you can see i've got two
light channels on there because it's a two channel receiver there's a two channel receiver so this is
just working on Bluetooth i haven't had to go on the wi-fi i just so if you had no wi-fi still work
yeah so you just you just need Bluetooth so it's obviously a local connection between the phone
and the and the receiver there um so i'll go in there you can see on the screen there i've got
channel one and channel two okay there you go switch those off no switch them back on
whoa that's that quick so there's no there's there's no edit there's no cut there's nothing
that's just something automatically now got control yeah okay i've got a problem okay
unless i've got your phone i'm gonna turn on my wall lights you're right before i go in there
i'm just gonna rename channel two is Gary okay i'm going to be channel 2 like it yeah so just
do that so there you go i'll just rename there and i'm going to be calling at this side of the bench
these look it out with those switches okay done so yeah you're right obviously not many people
just want to control the lights uh with a with an app
my mums nearly 80 middle of the night you don't want to be searching for your phone
when you need to answer that call um so what we're going to do now is we're just going to go in and
add some switches okay add some switches i've got a switch here i've got i've made sure i've got
one so this is Gary you're going to add this you know i'm going to add this switch so it's all
enough so it's a UK style switch so just press a button there we go and right now press it off
there you go so just added your switch no so that's it to the app okay have you got one there
i've got one here so i'm going to add i'm going to add i think i want to control your light as well
again on the app again i'm just going to add another UK style switch
and there you go i've got control so let me let me have a go so i'm i'm on yeah
you're off you're back on so then obviously my side you can't control it and i can't control
this at the moment so i'll just add another switch for that so you've got two gang switches let's
just have a little look at that we're going to go there so let's make that one b so i'll have
a little look at that as well so yeah so you're going to add another switch so you've got two gang
switch there yeah there you go that was just this was pull back so you've turned in both on not from
your mobile device you can do that down a little bit yeah wow yeah dead easy that was uh yeah i
mean we're going to start seeing more Bluetooth control in lighting because obviously you think
the number of devices out there in the world that use Bluetooth i'll give a think about connecting
phones to cars yes um but now we're seeing it in lighting control and the good thing is
it is obviously a global standard as well yeah but that's not it there is one more flavor of this as
well so we've got a version here anyone who's a fan of the Phillips Hue okay which are the uh
obviously the IOT lights from from Philips colour change you can get garden lights and get all sorts
yeah the Retro Touch range includes what's known as our friends of Hue Gary all right so if you're
a friend of Hue that will be able to control that system yeah so right he's looking for that on the
box we're looking for out in the box and we've got that here so we'll see there's a friends of Hue
uh smart switch so again it's the battery free technology so if i see that and i've got a hue
product i can use these EnOcean switches yes in this case we're using the RetroTouch ones
in order to control that so hang on so we're going to have some beautiful lights maybe from
Hue controlled by these Retro Touch switches that also look beautiful yeah exactly and again it
just gives that hand obviously you know they're super slim in terms of the switch if you want
to put down the wall you've just got this comes with a double sided sticky tape okay that's the
old Blue Peter tradition uh so just peel that off and obviously you can stick that to the wall but
you know think of the scenarios we've got here the traditional the bedside light either there
if you're lights off there Gary brought it back on for you uh you can really simplify that wiring
currently yeah you can and and then think about it as raw materials and effort to put cables in
so you you're wiring extra circuitry everywhere around to make these switches absolutely where you
need them which then is obviously compromised when let's go back to that bedroom you have a
reshuffle around move the bed you've got those switches chased into the wall you're sort of
locked into that position within that room so of course that gives you greater flexibility and
the amount of time it takes the electrician to install is greatly reduced as well so this
is the Retrotouch range with the obviously the glass front panel i will leave a link
in the description for all of the products we've shown here and obviously the wiring
accessories that go with that and obviously being a wireless switch expert Gary will try and answer
as many of your comments as he possibly can and get the switch found the right way as well