A while ago I found a website offering radio control handsets which operate a receiver in the garage to turn the garage drive lights on or off, but I cannot now locate it. Anyone know which company it is ?
Jim Hawkins
On Thursday 24 October 2013 21:14 Jim Hawkins wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Pretty much any RF lightswitch type system -
Such as for example... ???
Jim Hawkins
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lightwaverf in screwfix?
On Thursday 24 October 2013 21:19 Jim Hawkins wrote in uk.d-i-y:
The ones B&Q or Homebase sell - or maybe something from here:
One of these
I have used the 5 button remote for a while without problems and am now thinking about using a smartphone link.
I have just bought (but not yet collected) three LightwaveRF plug-in sockets for more or less that purpose - plus an extra small remote control.
If I like them, it is possible I might get the internet interconnect which allows control from mobile phone or other computer.
If searching Screwfix it looks like they have the same mad fools, sorry "web developers" as B&Q. You might need to search for "lightwave rf" or "lightwaverf" or was it "light wave rf" - eventually you might by luck find something useful.
They do a dimmable CFL that can be switched on/off with the remote if the drive fittings will take it. About £20 with the five button remote in screwfix. Mutiple lamps will respond to the same button press and you can use upto four remotes/pirs/switches.
There are many remote control sockets about. I paid a fiver for a set of three together with a four channel remote control from Asda...
Orginally bought to switch the christmas lights on and off that are fed from the garage from inside the house. That didn't work, I suspect the thick stone walls and metal garage door did for the signal. Currently have one in the loft to switch the mouse trap baby monitor on/off and that works from the ground floor no problem.
polygonum put finger to keyboard:
Use Google instead.
I often find that Googling gives much better results than searching for on the company's own web site.
Highly likely the two firms have the same owners.
Kingfisher Group owns both.
No idea which you found, but I quickly found this one:
If you wanted, you could remotely control an electric gate, the garage door opener and external lights all from one unit.
Colin Bignell
Don't know but many seem to just use a radio controlled 13amp outlet. One needs to read the blurb first, as ranges do vary, but I have one on a socket block on a window sill and can switch on the lights down my front path from inside a minicab with it. I just keep forgetting to switch them off again....... grin. Brian
That may well be true. And often is for many sites. But the above experiences were largely based on my experience inside a Screwfix shop trying to order some bits. Stupidly enough, I forgot the piece of paper with all the details, so I had to navigate the till person's computer. (These things don't seem to be in the paper catalogue at all.) Anyway, "Try google" was not the most appropriate in that precise circumstance.
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