Actually, I thought this was probably what they did as I was trying to fall asleep this morning. I briefly unhooked the old switch, realized the new one wasn't going to match up, hooked the old switch back up.) (Also, I know the wires should be spread farther apart or capped or something. 3 wires plus a ground.the white one is supposed to be neutral right? I won't be surprised to hear, again, that I'm wrong but.before I give up on the idea of a motion sensor switch completely, and to make sure I understand what I'm looking at, I figure it's best to ask. This is the wiring at the switch that I opened up today. Is it possible that they did something super weird with the wiring and the two switches aren't connected by a traveler? From what I've read, it's not the way it's done.but is it "possible" that each switch is wired to the light fixture, but not technically to the other switch? Like, could both switches be wired like plain single whatever switches but still somehow control the same light fixture? Again, I realize that's NOT the way it's done, but we have some light switches that don't seem to actually control anything so a really weird,not right situation wouldn't be super surprising to me. I can try to get a picture of that tomorrow. I didn't take the second switch apart to see what the wires were on that side. White is neutral isn't it? The house is a little older, built in 1996, but shouldn't it have a neutral wire? I thought neutral was "standard" by the late 80's or early 90's and since this was mid-90's it doesn't seem like they would have wired the house without a neutral wire would they? (Actually, there's some weird stuff here so I suppose it's possible.) If I ignore the ground wire, this switch box - the house side of the switch situation, has three wires - black, red and white. ![]() Also my excuse for incorrectly naming the wires I was seeing, or thought I was seeing. ![]() I took a picture of the switch I was looking at this afternoon but too many distractions were going on and I forgot it.
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