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Turning lights off automatically
Zero999:
Why is she up till stupid o'clock in the morning?
What time does the rest of the family go to bed and get up?
If everyone else goes to bed and gets up much earlier and there's no reason for he to be awake at that time, simply tell her to go to bed. In the morning, when everyone else is awake, go and wake her up. Vacuum the house and play loud music first thing in the morning. Once she learns she has to be up at a reasonable time, she'll go to bed much earlier.
jonpaul:
IR motion sensing light switch replacement, at Amazon or Home Depot
beware of the minimum load required and that some need a neural /ground and others are 2 wire
Jon
rdl:
--- Quote ---And the problem with the Wi-Fi stuff is it's rubbish, we have some Tuya smart bulbs and they are quite unreliable and there is no guarantee in 10 years that the server in China will still work for them, and no way to change their API endpoint if it doesn't. Also you have to effectively consent to that server knowing what your smart home is doing. Hmm.
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Man, people actually buy stuff that works this way? The world has gotten a lot stupider since I last checked.
james_s:
--- Quote from: rdl on October 22, 2022, 12:37:28 pm ---Man, people actually buy stuff that works this way? The world has gotten a lot stupider since I last checked.
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I don't think it's reasonable to expect most people to know any better. To a lot of ordinary people electricity is magic in the walls that makes the lights work, they have no idea how it actually functions and don't care. The average consumer has no clue how a smart bulb works, they just set it up following the instructions on the box and if it does what it's supposed to do they're happy.
Zero999:
How much current do Wi-Fi devices use?
I have another idea: switch of the lights at the circuit breaker before you go to bed. You could even fit a padlock to the consumer unit, so she can't unlock it.
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