Need help wiring new wifi switch

[hoki]

Theres two switches side by side in the same box by the entry door and the switch on the right switches on and off the porch light and the switch on the left will turn on the hallway lights and also works with another switch at the end of the hallway to turn on and off the same lights so that must be a two-way switch and the one for the porch light is just a regular one I guess and I want to change the porch light switch to a wifi enables paddle switch so I hooked it up the way I thought it would should go and something is wrong because whenever I turn off the hallway light the switch will turn on for the porch but if I turn on the hallway light the porch switch will turn off. The way it was wired before was the hallway light switch had two wires going in on top and the one wire on the side on the bottom was hooked up to it with the screw and it also ran to the porch light switch to the bottoms screw so I'm wondering what is that wire that runs to both switches in line with each other. Also I was reading something I'm about switches earlier that talked about joining two wires together and plugging in a pigtail from them is that something I would have to do here?

 

[buzzlightyear]

America wiring colours .

 

[GeorgeCooke]

In the US white is neutral, black is live, red is usually the other phase live. Don't what colour is used for a switched wire.

 

[buzzlightyear]

Electrical wiring - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_wiring

 

[hoki]

so the 3 white wires that are capped together in the back is what I need to connect the neutral from the wifi switch to then? before I had it connected to the red/back wires in the back, could that be why it was turning off when the 2way switch would turn on?

 

[123]

Do electrical forums not exist in the US?

 

[buzzlightyear]

 

[buzzlightyear]

 

[hoki]

so if I had to neutral wire coming out of the wifi switch connected to the red traveler wire would the wifi switch turn off when the 2 way switch was turned on? cause that's what would happen. but i thought I first connected the neutral the the white wires that were capped together and nothing happened so that's why I connected it to the red and black one or is it red and white, it's a red wire and another wire capped together though.

 

[paul291277]

I am not misogynistic whatsoever and maybe it was the xmas vino talking but OP's question has been responded to completely differently on this forum to, lets say, he called himself Dave: Get a spark in: a local one: and sorry if I caused offence to anyone. Happy Holidays

 

[buzzlightyear]

I am not misogynistic whatsoever and maybe it was the xmas vino talking but OP's question has been responded to completely differently on this forum to, lets say, he called himself Dave: Get a spark in: a local one: and sorry if I caused offence to anyone. Happy Holidays

we don't want our cousins over the pond to think we are sexist .in England we are brought up to be genital men.. we still pull a chair out for some ladies.

 

[westward10]

The post has been reported. I suggest Paul refrains from posting if he has been on the vino.

 

[paul291277]

I will apologise once again, Hoki, I hope you get it sorted, night all x

 

[hoki]

well is everyone done with the suggestions?

 

[123]

If your location is correct, why are you asking this on a UK Forum?

 

[hoki]

just the place that popped up in goggle.