Joysticks in the bedroom - Tue, Apr 5, 2022
In this way, it’s really comfortable to control the lamps without trying to find the switches at night :)
I made it with two industrial joysticks bought from a local hardware shop. The signal is going to the electrical rack in my storage room. I’m using two smart relays - Shelly Pro 4PM made by a Bulgarian company. They are enough to control the lights in the whole apartment. I have used several impulse relays by Schneider in the past. They are with better quality but outsourcing the smart logic inside the relay makes the setup easier. Now I have only two FTP cables between the electrical rack and the network rack. They are mounted to the patch panel. Everything is controlled by Home Assistant which is installed on a Raspberry Pi 4 but this is not the topic. The joysticks are not smart. They are used instead of buttons.
The joystick:
This is the electrical DIN rack with the relays
And this is the network rack. They are patched directly on the sockets at right.
