[HH] Controlling multiple outlets from multiple remotes

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Fri Aug 17 01:06:54 EDT 2012


My daughter has three different lamps in her room, that she wants to
control remotely from two different locations.  Ideally the controllers
would wall mount, but one could be table top.  We could probably get
away with two lamps if necessary.  One is incandescent, one currently
has candelabra LED bulbs, and the last one is small CFL.  They're all
low wattage, though.

At first I went with what I know, which is X10.  X10 has turned out to
not be reliable enough, even though I use it in several other rooms in
the house with no problem.  There's all sorts of bad mojo in her room.

I thought of doing hard-wired two-way switches, but it would require
running wires along the base of her closet door, and I'm afraid the
monsters would chew on them.

What would be the next step up (ie still affordable) technology to try,
and where would be a good place to get it?

Thanks



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