Yes, all the wires were black when I opened the panel up. 🙈
Other light switches in my house had no neutral wire, which is surprising to me since our house is not very old. 😥 This one had three wires, so presumably with a neutral… probably because it is right next to a power outlet, unlike the other switches I replaced so far, which let whatever hack the lazy person who wired this up easily add ground.
I labelled each wire what I thought it should be, based on where they were inserted into the old switch. The old light switch had no markings on it to indicate what each hole was for, but one was red, so almost certainly the live wire. One of the other two was the return wire and the other the neutral.
I ended up just guessing, which powered up the new Zigbee switch but didn’t actually light up the lamp. Swapping those two did the job and now it’s perfect in every way, although I’m waiting for some wall filler to dry so the ugly gap at the top can be eliminated…
Yes, all the wires were black when I opened the panel up. 🙈
Other light switches in my house had no neutral wire, which is surprising to me since our house is not very old. 😥 This one had three wires, so presumably with a neutral… probably because it is right next to a power outlet, unlike the other switches I replaced so far, which let whatever hack the lazy person who wired this up easily add ground.
I labelled each wire what I thought it should be, based on where they were inserted into the old switch. The old light switch had no markings on it to indicate what each hole was for, but one was red, so almost certainly the live wire. One of the other two was the return wire and the other the neutral.
I ended up just guessing, which powered up the new Zigbee switch but didn’t actually light up the lamp. Swapping those two did the job and now it’s perfect in every way, although I’m waiting for some wall filler to dry so the ugly gap at the top can be eliminated…