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Title: LED Lighting Dimmer, WiFi controlled from your phone
Post by: Roger & Susan in Home2 on May 23, 2017, 02:49:07 pm
From one of my favorite sites,
http://www.leevalley.com/us/wood/page.aspx?p=75284&cat=51&ap=1

Or this one
http://www.leevalley.com/us/wood/page.aspx?p=75285&cat=51&ap=1

Free shipping too.
Roger
Title: Re: LED Lighting Dimmer, WiFi controlled from your phone
Post by: Tom Lang on May 23, 2017, 03:01:07 pm
What keeps me from buying these and a multitude of other wifi enabled gadgets is the task of changing all their wifi connections whenever going from one hotspot to another.

Having a router only partly mediates this.
Title: Re: LED Lighting Dimmer, WiFi controlled from your phone
Post by: Roger & Susan in Home2 on May 23, 2017, 03:19:50 pm
Tom, get a small router like the TP-Link nano 300 mbps, and connect all of your devices to it.  And connect the TP-Link to your hot spot, campground or what ever source you want to provide internet access to the router and then to all of your devices.

Amazon.com: TP-Link N300 Wireless Wi-Fi Nano Travel Router with Range... (https://amazon.com/TP-Link-Wireless-Travel-Extender-TL-WR802N/dp/B00TQEX8BO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495567159&sr=8-1&keywords=tplink+nano+router)

If there is no internet access then all of the network functionality that depends only on wifi will still work.
Title: Re: LED Lighting Dimmer, WiFi controlled from your phone
Post by: Tom Lang on May 23, 2017, 03:25:46 pm
That's what I was trying to say , a router helps but still needs to be changed.
Title: Re: LED Lighting Dimmer, WiFi controlled from your phone
Post by: Roger & Susan in Home2 on May 23, 2017, 03:40:46 pm
We use our Verizon MiFi device or more often now our 250 GB/Month AT&T HomeBase as an internet source  Almost never have to change it.  We had a CradlePoint router into which you could program several external sources and it would find whichever was available.  Nice but other odd behaviors that I didn't like.

Look at the other link for a non-contact on/off dimmer controller.  Nice in the kitchen or bathroom when hands are wet.  No wifi needed.
Title: Re: LED Lighting Dimmer, WiFi controlled from your phone
Post by: Roger & Susan in Home2 on May 23, 2017, 09:01:08 pm
These would work nice in this outdoor lighting application.

Night Lighting (http://www.foreforums.com/index.php?topic=31161.msg273446#msg273446)