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I'd like an Alexa for doing the bins, emptying the cats' dirt boxes, making me a cup of tea, washing up etc etc. I can dream...........
Still think wifi switches would be better than bulbs.
I'd like an Alexa for doing the bins, emptying the cats' dirt boxes, making me a cup of tea, washing up etc etc. I can dream...........
I can't remember the last time 'Jesus' made me a cup of tea.It's your fault, you could have chosen that name when you were filling in his birth certificate.
Not that way.You need a wife.
Or an au pair.
No chance. I have a hormonal 26yr old here.
Maybe put the xmas tree/decorations on a schedule?
Just got one myself and would like to do our lights. But we have at least 3 bulbs in every room so it would be very expensive to change them.
Also do you know if you can get actual socket outlets rather than the inline plugs?
Switch on 24th Dec 23.59, switch off 26th Dec 00.01 bah humbug
@Cue - the wifi switches I use simply cut into a live and neutral to any item. I've done my ceiling light directly at the fitting rather than through the wall switch. £.5.50 and when the bulb blows it costs me a standard replacement bulb as it would have done previously.
I know what you mean about wifi wall switches though. All these places like Maplin sell them yet they can't even be used in a UK home without an electrician dropping a neutral feed down to the wall box which can sometimes be an impossibility.
Bulbs are the issue here too, not paying out near enough £20 a bulb every time one dies! As for the outlets, I suspect you'd need a really deep back box?
We did sumat like that just before we moved, way back in Christmas 1979. Put the tree up Christmas Eve, Took everything down Boxing Day. None of us were in a festive mood that year.Switch on 24th Dec 23.59, switch off 26th Dec 00.01 bah humbug
There’s Lutron and Insteon
Just got one myself and would like to do our lights. But we have at least 3 bulbs in every room so it would be very expensive to change them. Also do you know if you can get actual socket outlets rather than the inline plugs?
- I missed this post sorry Rikki. Look at Sonoff wifi switches on eBay (a little over a fiver) and wire them directly into the flex of regular things like desk lamps etc. Far cheaper than using inline plugs and less bulky, and you can fit them at any point in the cable that will be easiest to keep them out of sight.
- If you can be bothered with the extra hassle they can be used for ceiling lights too - hidden away in the ceiling cavity. It means you can stick with regular bulbs. Just bear in mind that you'd want to program them on a mains wire at floor level first, before connecting them in place on the lights. Also, if you ever changed your wifi router it would be easier to change the new one to the same network name and key as the old one otherwise you'd have to go digging them all back out of the ceilings again.