Have fitted a new lightswitch in the dining room. The old setup, with the IKEA remote control fixed to the wall where the light switch would be, and the switch behind it wired permanently on was an unsatisfying solution. I have gradually been replacing this setup, where the bulbs were remotely controlled, to a new setup where the switch itself is controlled. It's still all Zigbee, still the same home automation setup, but Clare does not quite believe me. She thinks we've had too many different home automation setups and they never work. But I think it's good, and it made me happy. The job went very smoothly today, when I took the panel off the wall that I'd put in place of the original switch there was a deep dry liner behind it, so I didn't even need to fit a spacer. The spacer I'd driven to Dover for especially. Usually these smart automated light switches are a bit deeper and won't fit into the existing back box, but as this is, er, the third time I've done this one I must have fitted a deeper back box on a previous attempt. There's not always room in the wall to do that, but in this one there is.
I set up the three way extension lead in the study the other day, so I have three remotely controlled sockets down there to use. I will move that into where the computer and the speakers and so on are. Hey maybe I'll do that now while I'm on a roll!
Paul Clarkeʼs blog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone, Kent. Married to Clare + father to two, I am a full-stack web engineer, and I do js / nodejs, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.
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Yep, deliberately unstyled.