A battery wall control for the tenant who cannot touch the wiring, and for the room where the developer put the switch in the wrong place.
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This is not a mains switch, and that is the point. The Wireless Remote Switch H1 is a battery powered scene controller with two rockers that sits on a surface, sticks to a wall with the included pad, or screws onto an existing wall box. Nothing is wired. Nothing is cut into the plaster. It sends a Zigbee command to an Aqara hub, and the hub does the work, so an Aqara Zigbee hub is required and you need one for Apple Home as well. Buy it to put a light control where there is no cable: beside a bed, on a glass partition, at the far end of a majlis, or over the dead second box of an old two-way circuit. It is also the fix for a room where the only switch is behind the door. The two rockers give you seven configurable actions in multi-function mode, so one plate can pair a natural on and off, or run four scenes and a night mode. The limits are honest ones. It controls smart devices and scenes only, never the circuit behind it, so the lights themselves must already be smart. There is no backlight, so in a dark majlis you are feeling for a button. It runs on a CR2450 coin cell that eventually needs replacing.
Adds wall control with no wiring, so a tenant needs no landlord approval
Puts a light switch where there is no cable, such as beside a bed or on a glass partition
Seven separate actions across two rockers, enough for a natural on and off plus scenesRuns five years on one coin cell and lifts off the wall with no marksModel WRS-R02
| Model | WRS-R02 |
| Format | Battery scene controller, no mains wiring |
| Wireless | Zigbee 3.0, IEEE 802.15.4 |
| Hub requirement | Aqara Zigbee 3.0 hub required, sold separately |
| Battery | One CR2450 coin cell, 5 year battery life |
| Actions | 7 configurable actions in multi-function mode, single press only in high-speed mode |
| Response time | 50 ms in high-speed click mode |
| Mounting | Free standing, adhesive sticker, or screwed onto an existing wall box |
| Dimensions | 85.8 x 86 x 12.5 mm |
| Operating conditions | -10 to 50 C, 0 to 95% RH non-condensing |
Wireless Remote Switch H1 (Double Rocker)Adhesive stickerInsulation tabUser manualThe wiring question that decides everything else in this category does not apply here, which is why it earns a place in a Dubai flat. In an older apartment with no neutral at the switch box, where no mains smart switch can be fitted at all, this button plus smart bulbs or a module gives real wall control and leaves the electrical installation untouched, which keeps a tenancy agreement barring alterations intact. The plate is 85.8 x 86 x 12.5 mm, so it is an 86 x 86 mm square that covers the British pattern back box used across the UAE. Aqara supports screwing it onto an existing box, but have the fixing centres of your box checked on site before you plan on that, because box screw pitch in older buildings is not always consistent. In villas we use it as a bedside control in master bedrooms where the only switch is by the door, and at the far end of a majlis where there is no second switch. Keep it indoors in air conditioned space. Aqara rates it to 50 C, and a balcony, car porch or store room in July will pass that. It needs no mains power, so it keeps working through a DEWA cut, but the hub and the lights it commands will not, so nothing happens until power returns.
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