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Author Topic: What to do with 6 stick-a-switches  (Read 2960 times)

imstriker

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What to do with 6 stick-a-switches
« on: June 09, 2005, 09:32:55 PM »

Has anyone found a use for 6 of these things
as in the sale?  I can only thing of so many
uses for the same thing in one room.  How
many doors can you have?  I think they are
nice in theory,  however mine never seem to
work in a different room than the AHP module.
Just a sarcastic curiousity...
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roger1818

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Re: What to do with 6 stick-a-switches
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2005, 11:37:27 PM »

You could give one to me. ;)  On second
thought, maybe not.  I haven't ever bought
any of them and am proud of it ;).  They
might make a good door jam though.
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Tom F.

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Re: What to do with 6 stick-a-switches
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2005, 12:49:24 AM »

I've replaced the single gang light switch
cover on the walls going into each room with
a double gang, then paste the stick-a-switch
over the empty spot.  (This is important,
because I wouldn't want to apply double sided
tape directly to painted drywall.)  Because
of the CM15a's weakness receiving RF devices,
you may need to set aside a housecode for
them, turn off that housecode in Activehome
Pro, then supplement with an additional
tranceiver module (tm-751, or a levington or
WGL all-housecode tranceiver).

If your setup runs conditional macros
reliably, you can even make one
stick-a-switch control six different devices.

IF switch 1 on and light is off, turn light
on ELSE turn light off

IF switch 1 off and fan is off, turn fan on
ELSE turn fan off

et cetera.

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Charles Sullivan

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Re: What to do with 6 stick-a-switches
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2005, 06:53:19 PM »

I mount the wireless remote wall switches to
a blank wall by screwing a "mid-size" switch
plate to the wall with #6 flat-head sheet-
metal screws and use Velcro to attach the
wireless switch to the switch plate.  It
makes for a neat looking installation and a
couple of small screw holes are easy to patch
if it ever needs to be removed.

If I want to mount a wireless switch adjacent
to a wired switch, I get a switch plate
(again in the mid-size) with two more switch
positions than the original wired switch, e.
g., if there's a single wired switch, get a
3-holer.  Then use the original screws to
attach the switch plate to the switch box
(just letting the two "empty" switch
positions hang over the side - no additional
screws into the wall), and again Velcro the
wireless switches to the wall plate, covering
the two "empty" switch holes.

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