I have a room that does not have a light switch in it. It just has a pull string light in the middle of it, however, if you go in the room in the middle of the night, you can’t see anything and you spend some time waving your arms in the air trying to find the string.
I have seen remote light switch setups that are really expensive and still have to be wired into the house wiring, but is there one that screws into a light socket? Possibly with a couple electrical plugs built in?
I did some searching, but my Google Fu is lacking.
Cooter
Dork
12/31/18 9:13 a.m.
What about a motion sensor light? What kind of room is it? Motion sensor lights are awesome for storage rooms and other places you'll enter with full hands and where you don't care about having direct control over the light.
$11 from Amazon, screws into the socket then a bulb screws into it: https://www.amazon.com/First-Alert-PIR725-Sensing-Activated/dp/B003QKS4Z4
$17 for a pair of bulbs with it built in: https://www.amazon.com/Motion-Sensor-Bulb-Radar-LED/dp/B0796Q95KS
mtn
MegaDork
12/31/18 10:55 a.m.
dculberson said:
What about a motion sensor light? What kind of room is it? Motion sensor lights are awesome for storage rooms and other places you'll enter with full hands and where you don't care about having direct control over the light.
$11 from Amazon, screws into the socket then a bulb screws into it: https://www.amazon.com/First-Alert-PIR725-Sensing-Activated/dp/B003QKS4Z4
$17 for a pair of bulbs with it built in: https://www.amazon.com/Motion-Sensor-Bulb-Radar-LED/dp/B0796Q95KS
Do NOT put one of these in the bathroom. You'll be standing there, doing your business. You typically are standing still--very still. Light goes out. Now you're standing in the dark, mid-stream, trying to wave your arm while keeping the rest of your body completely still.... Not fun.
RossD
MegaDork
12/31/18 11:09 a.m.
In reply to mtn :
Peeing by sonar is an event best left to gross gas stations.
If you can get to the attic space its not bad to drop a line down the wall.
Otherwise, following a joist space usually isnt too rough on drywall patches.
In the pre-wireless days of my youth, I solved the exact same problem with some Erector brackets, pulleys and a long string. (I just moved the string to hang by the door.)
...but at a mere $18, that socket/switch combo looks hard to beat.
I have two of these in my house and work great.
My bedrooms have this goofy, old multi switch for the ceiling fan. Added this "surface mount" white switch that has 2 AA batteries in it.
At the nigh stand of the bedroom we plug in a lamp to the receiver side. Now, when you enter the bedroom the night stand lamp comes on with a "light switch".
How about a longer pull cord and some eyelets screwed into the ceiling/wall with a pulley where it turns to go down the wall so you can just pull the cord from the wall?
Lutron makes a little flat wireless switch that looks like your run of the mill decora wall switch that clips into a bracket you screw to the wall and takes a standard wall plate. From there they have wireless modules that you put in the electric box feeding whatever you want to remotely turn on. When done nobody will ever know you didn’t run wires, and the little switch recharges via micro usb cord when needed. It’ll run about $100 to do one fixture but it’s very high quality.
In reply to Patrick :
Yeah I saw that. $100 is not worth it IMO, plus I’m renting and don’t want to dip into the electrical wiring.
