Fifteen minutes at lunch today and the new light switch is in. And it's good!
Fit it just like a normal switch, it's 1-gang so just one wire in and one wire out. It's a bit deeper than some switches so I put a little collar round it, but luckily I had some, as the old lightwaverf sockets were all really deep. Turn the poower back on and tap it to turn lights on, tap it to turn lights off. It looks like a rocker but it's a single button under there. Then just blagging it, not reading instructions, I thought probably hold the switch down to make it pair with the home assistant? But that turned it off. There's no long press or anything I think. But then when I turned it back on again the led is flashing, so it paired with Home Assistant. Now it's on my home automation setup, and the switch turns the lights on and off and the home automation bit does the same.
It's not as I feared that when the switch was turned off at the wall it stops being reachable remotely, so that's good. Also another fear was that it would flicker when it only had led lights on it, I've seen that before. But no, all good.
As I said, there's no dimmer, no long press, no option to double tap to trigger something, but that's OK. Main thing is it works exactly as it should, was easy to fit, and is fine with the LED lights it is connected to.
So far looking like I'll get another of these. Not going to fill the house up, take it steady. This is connected to dumb bulbs as that's what I had in the study, don't know what will happen when it's attached to smart bulbs. I guess the bulbs just lose their smartness. I will try it out. I think we could do with dumb bulbs and smart switches in most places anyway.
The 2-gang version is only £20 today, prime exclusive deal though12. That's less than I paid for this single1. There's a triple switch out there somewhere, I've seen a picture.
Not been out at lunch. That only took me fifteen minutes, so I did plan to go to Tesco. However got out there and the beetle would not start, damn it. I'm sure I charged the battery just a couple of weeks ago.
Gigography for today in 2003, Stellastar, in 1992 some comedy from Stephen Punt and Hugh Dennis, and way back in 1990, Snuff.
Sunny intervals and a fresh breeze, 1 - 7℃.
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Yep, deliberately unstyled.