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Alexa smart plugs - or others



Cookson

Cookson

ClioSport Club Member
  Mk1 Audi TT 3.2 V6
I'm wanting to put an external ligh on the back garden to flick on when the dog goes out for a lash. I'm thinking of just wiring an ELD floodlight to a 3pin plug and drilling through the wall into the garage. Then put it on an Alexa plug and I can just tell it to turn the light on, rather than having it on a PIR system going off anytime a leaf blows into the garden.

Only issue I envisage is the garage plug is about as far away from the Wi-Fi router it could be, so it may not actually work.

Or soemthing like this one:

www.toolstation.com

TP Link Tapo P100 Smart Plug

Mini Smart Wi-Fi Plug.• Remote control• Schedule• Timer• Voice control• Away mode • Compact design• Easy setup and useEasily and simply control devices from home with a smart plug in conjunction with the Tapo app, with useful features including scheduling, timer and away modes.• Remote control –...
www.toolstation.com www.toolstation.com

Any other recommendations?
 
Maccy

Maccy

ClioSport Club Member
  Straight 6
I have a lot of Tapo plugs around the house and garden office, great things but the app can be a little buggy sometimes. Works fine with Google assistant, I don't have Alexa but I imagine it works the same. Can also have them on schedules/timers too.
 
Matt Cup

Matt Cup

ClioSport Club Member
  Leon Cupra
The only smart plugs I have are some cheap Lidl silvercrest ones attached to my hue bridge that I use for xmas lights. They do the job and haven’t failed in the 5 years I’ve had them.
 
Cookson

Cookson

ClioSport Club Member
  Mk1 Audi TT 3.2 V6
The other consideration is that I have a plug on the back wall of the kitchen next to the window. I guess I could mount the light to that and drill through the wall next to it to put a plug on it. Then it's a case of flicking the switch instead.
 
Cookson

Cookson

ClioSport Club Member
  Mk1 Audi TT 3.2 V6
We have an Alexa plug on a lamp inside, so decided to have a try with that last night.

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Le Bosh.

No to order a decent LED spotlight for the garden to plug into that.
 
dann2707

dann2707

ClioSport Club Member
For what it's worth you can change the sensitivity of the spot lights. My cheap one from toolstation /screw fix (I made a thread) is absolutely spot on and never self triggers. Only when Stanley and people go out does it turn itself on which is good.

Had a timer setting too from 30 secs to 15 mins I believe

I wouldn't consider using alexa for that purpose at all
 
Cookson

Cookson

ClioSport Club Member
  Mk1 Audi TT 3.2 V6
All sorted

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Prison yard is now open for night time exercise at the call of "Alexa, turn on the garden" 👌🏻
 
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