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Re: LED Lighting Dimmer, WiFi controlled from your phone

Reply #1 –
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.
Tom Lang K6PG (originally  KC6UEC)
and Diane Lang
2003 38 U295 build 6209
2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Ecodiesel
still have tow-ready 2006 Acura MDX 
Temple City, California
Motorcade 16681 California Chapter President
SKP 16663 member of SKP Park of the Sierra, Coarsegold California
FMCA F071251
Retired electrical and electronic engineer

Re: LED Lighting Dimmer, WiFi controlled from your phone

Reply #2 –

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...

If there is no internet access then all of the network functionality that depends only on wifi will still work.

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Roger Engdahl and Susan Green
2001 U320 3610 #5879 (Home2) - 2014 Jeep Cherokee or 2018 F150
Hastings, MN

Re: LED Lighting Dimmer, WiFi controlled from your phone

Reply #3 –
That's what I was trying to say , a router helps but still needs to be changed.
Tom Lang K6PG (originally  KC6UEC)
and Diane Lang
2003 38 U295 build 6209
2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Ecodiesel
still have tow-ready 2006 Acura MDX 
Temple City, California
Motorcade 16681 California Chapter President
SKP 16663 member of SKP Park of the Sierra, Coarsegold California
FMCA F071251
Retired electrical and electronic engineer

Re: LED Lighting Dimmer, WiFi controlled from your phone

Reply #4 –
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.
Roger Engdahl and Susan Green
2001 U320 3610 #5879 (Home2) - 2014 Jeep Cherokee or 2018 F150
Hastings, MN

Re: LED Lighting Dimmer, WiFi controlled from your phone

Reply #5 –
These would work nice in this outdoor lighting application.

Night Lighting
Roger Engdahl and Susan Green
2001 U320 3610 #5879 (Home2) - 2014 Jeep Cherokee or 2018 F150
Hastings, MN