Major Complaints Thread (2 Viewers)

[magicbastarder]

program it? is someone going to be able to hack your light switch now?

 

[pete]

program it? is someone going to be able to hack your light switch now?

Only me

 

[magicbastarder]

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Program it to illuminate the room (click)
Program it to darken the room (click)

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Use finger to
Press on
Press off

Done

 

[ernesto]

Press once for on
Press and hold for dimming
Press twice for off

?

What smart hub you running?

going to set up a hubitat and automate loads of shit when we get in to our house

 

[magicbastarder]

six months time, pete will be back in this thread again complaining he can't use his lights because the certificate used by his light switch has expired.

 

[egg_]

going to set up a hubitat and automate loads of shit when we get in to our house

We wired the entire house with CAT5 when we built it (2006) and only used it to connect the desktops in the office to the router. Was just a waste of money

 

[pete]

Press once for on
Press and hold for dimming
Press twice for off

?

What smart hub you running?

going to set up a hubitat and automate loads of shit when we get in to our house

This one is a Tuya Zigbee 3 gang switch that controls two sets of ceiling lights and an outdoor light above the back door. I'm running it all through Home Assistant so the next step will be to get it properly tied into the the alarm system motion & contact sensors through that so that the kitchen lights go on when motion is detected in the morning/off when no motion is detected for after a certain time whatever, outdoor light comes on when the back door is opened & switches off automatically if it's left on when the back door is closed again, that sort of thing. It's all stupid small stuff.

 

[pete]

We wired the entire house with CAT5 when we built it (2006) and only used it to connect the desktops in the office to the router. Was just a waste of money

probably time to replace it with cat8 so

 

[pete]

Use finger to
Press on
Press off

Done

you want me to press a button on a switch like some kind of caveman?

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

If that's so much effort that you have to go through all that frustration and work just to be lazy,well I just don't know.

 

[magicbastarder]

the light switches in my house are 68 years old, and at the rate we're going trying to find someone to rewire the place, i reckon they'll still outlive pete's new one.

 

[ann post]

This one is a Tuya Zigbee 3 gang switch that controls two sets of ceiling lights and an outdoor light above the back door. I'm running it all through Home Assistant so the next step will be to get it properly tied into the the alarm system motion & contact sensors through that so that the kitchen lights go on when motion is detected in the morning/off when no motion is detected for after a certain time whatever, outdoor light comes on when the back door is opened & switches off automatically if it's left on when the back door is closed again, that sort of thing. It's all stupid small stuff.

A off the shelf 10eu motion sensor and a junction box could do that
But I suppose you want people on the internet to be able to turn on your mains

 

[pete]

LUDDITES

 

[ernesto]

We wired the entire house with CAT5 when we built it (2006) and only used it to connect the desktops in the office to the router. Was just a waste of money

well yeah it's a waste if you don't utilise it. Most stuff is wireless now anyway - zigbee / z-wave / WiFi etc

 

[pete]

you can run audio / HDMI over cat5 too

 

[ernesto]

you can run audio / HDMI over cat5 too

utilise this a lot in work for cctv monitors in big buildings

 

[Cormcolash]

Program it to illuminate the room (click)
Program it to darken the room (click)

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[egg_]

well yeah it's a waste if you don't utilise it. Most stuff is wireless now anyway - zigbee / z-wave / WiFi etc

I never got around to even wiring the front plates on the boxes, again except for where I needed to (the office). Really I only put the wires in just in case I'd regret NOT doing it. Didn't realise how completely wireless was going to take over. Was running video over one for a while (computer to projector in the sitting room) but it got flaky after a few years and I wasn't going to pull the wire out to see why, so now I have another cable running around the skirting boards instead

edit: my work computer these days is a mac, doesn't even have an ethernet port