Wifi Circuit Breaker

jc1001 · 01-12-2020 12:19PM #1

Hi, has anyone some experience they could share of Wifi Circuit Breakers, the type that can link in to Alexa and be controlled by timer / remotely on phone by an app? I'm trying to find something that could replace some 1P B10A breakers controlling light circuits in an outhouse / garden - fuse box is in outhouse. I've seen a few on Amazon but C curve, higher amperage, and would prefer to swap like-for-like.

Thanks.

01-12-2020 01:09PM

Why switch MCBs, would a WiFi switch not be much easier ?

01-12-2020 01:11PM

A sonoff would be perfect.
or use a sonoff to switch a contactor for heavier loads,you can get dinrail mountable sonoffs.

Effects · 01-12-2020 01:15PM

I use a tplink plug that controls a contactor. I've never got around to using sonoff, but it's probably neater.
I just needed a way to control storage heating, without me physically being there to switch it on.

01-12-2020 01:22PM

BrownFinger wrote: »

A sonoff would be perfect.
or use a sonoff to switch a contactor for heavier loads,you can get dinrail mountable sonoffs.

+1

I use these too. Cheap, reliable and integrate fully with google home and Alexa.

jc1001 · 01-12-2020 02:26PM

Thanks for all the replies - a bit of homework for me to do - I was thinking the wifi breaker because at the moment the outhouse internal lights are on a dual-dimmer with some garden lights, but the garden lights master is a photo cell, and I thought the easier things was just to replace the breaker for each circuit with a wifi enabled one, but it looks like there are easier options.

Thanks!

01-12-2020 04:28PM

Look for the sonoff with RF too.
I have a fob on my keys so I can turn on the lights to the garage without using my phone .
Then you can turn them off with your phone/fob.

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