To preface this: I completed a Lehre as Automatiker EFZ, I know how to behave around electricity, I know where the fusebox is, I have a multimeter, insulated screwdrivers, etc.

I just don't know much about this type of lightswitch.

My issue is the following: the upper part above the switch itself is kinda hard to get off, I fear about breaking the frame.
Removing the button itself, easy.
But the frame inbetween the button and the outer frame seems to be clipped into the switch at two points.

I tried wiggling it out, if I try to jank it out I fear I'd break the inner frame.

Would you try to shim the two clips? Any other advice?

Also: no the switch isn't broken, I just want to install a smart switch behind it so I can use the lighting in the kitchen via Homeassistant

by derFensterputzer

10 comments

  1. As stated in the description I just need advice on how to do this without breaking anything. It’s a lightswitch in the kitchen.

  3. Should be removable without Breaking. It’s just „clicked“ in Place.

  4. You have to remove the big button of the switch and then you should see 2 small screws one above one below the button. If you remove them the small frame around the button falls of. After that remove the screw below and the whole frame comes of.

  5. Looks like a Feller EdizioDue. I think you should be able to remove the cap of the switch with a small screwdriver from the top middle and then lifting it. Probably also a manual on the homepage

    Looks like this video has a similar switch

    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox1YBWgCxoo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox1YBWgCxoo)

  6. The switch is part of the Edizio line by Feller. Maybe that can help you find instructions.

  7. First off a cursory notice that you are not allowed to perform any kind of maintenance on an electrical installation without the owner’s consent and doing so anyway is a cancellation reason that has good chances of being upheld.

    That being said, the frame of the Feller system is held on by the face of each element. The face is held either by the slotted screw as seen below or a pair of PZ crossheads, which are covered by the snapped-on button. The button can be lifted off with a flathead screwdriver fitting the aforementioned slotted screw, there’s a pair of reinforced recesses on the button for that purpose.

  8. I like to find the installation instructions, then work that back

  9. What kind of smart switch you have in mind? I installed Philips Hue Wall Switch module and found it quite unreliable when using it with a Feller toggle switch. I had to use an impulse switch to make it work properly.

  10. Take two thin screwdrivers and push them simultaneously into the right and left holes of the three existing ones. Then it automatically pushes the frame outwards…. At least I think so. Let me know how it goes…

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