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#Iotty smart switch code

I have an Office Hallway light in my IOTTY app and I can toggle it on and off. Throughout this tutorial I'm going to be automating the Office Hallway light. Note: I'm skipping steps 1 and 2 above, because these need to be done to make the light work at all and if you can't get those steps working, you should be able to get support from IOTTY directly.

Create a set of Routines in Alexa to control the lights based on the binary_sensors above.

Create some input_booleans, one for each of your above binary_sensors, these are what you'll actually control using HA.

Create some virtual binary_sensors, one for each of your IOTTY switches (so if you have a 2-gang, you'll need two), you'll expose these to Alexa so it knows when to turn things on and off.

Have HA configured to use Alexa (I do this through Nabu Casa) by following the instructions here:.

Have your IOTTY configured with Alexa (you should be able to tell Alexa to turn on and off the light in question) by following the instructions that came with the IOTTY.

Configure your IOTTY with the iotty App so you can control the light in question from that app.

Since they do work with Alexa, I decided to spend, A LOT of, time seeing if I could get them integrated in a way that allowed the switches to function normally with Alexa, but also allowed me to see their state in HA and control them via HA, and Alexa would know if HA changed the state of the light. There is no native integration, as there's no open API for these switches (see above IOTTY). However, I wanted them to work with Home Assistant.

#Iotty smart switch code

So, I had a discount code and purchased a two-gang and a single-gang switch to see how they worked. These were good looking, felt capacitive (they aren't), and had native integrations to Alexa and Google Assistant.

In looking for a replacement, I stumbled upon the IOTTY Smart Home switches.

I loved these things, unfortunately they chose greed over openness, never published a public API, didn't work with any Home Automation providers, and now they're out of business (and I have 10 wall switches that will have to be replaced). My all-time favorite smart wall switches were the Plum Lightpads.