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title: "Joysticks in hte bedroom"
author: "Blagovest Petrov"
date: 2022-04-05T11:26:51+03:00
tags:
- "Home Automation"
- "video"
categories:
- "Home Automation"
- "DIY"
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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](https://vikiwat.com/djoistik-ms-4p-4-pozicii-1no-nezadyrzhasht.html) 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](https://shelly.cloud/knowledge-base/devices/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.
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The joystick:
![The Joystick](img/joystick.jpg)
This is the electrical `DIN` rack with the relays
![The Relays](img/electrical_rack.jpg)
And this is the network rack. They are patched directly on the sockets at right.
![The Rack](img/Network_rack.jpg)