5 Nov
2006
5 Nov
'06
12:04 p.m.
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Roger Merchberger wrote:
I do that every night. I'm the "night
owl" of the family, and the light
switch is on one end of the hallway (top of stairs; other switch is at
bottom of stairs), my bedroom on the other. The hallway itself is unlit.
Now, I *could* walk down to the bedroom, turn on a light, walk back, turn
off the hallway light, then walk back to the bedroom again, but a) that
takes a lot of time, and b) that would wake my wife, which has dire
consequences for her sleep. If I don't want to get woken up at 6:00 am (not
to mention - ahem - other benefits :-O ), I tend not to wake her up at 2:00
am...
1) X10 (quite a bit more than 10 yrs old, controllable by TRS80)
2) train your dog how to work a light switch
3) switch with delay
4) auxiliary lighting in the hallway