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The light in my front porch (stoop in Usonian) just went pop.

It has a bayonet fitting, and has been a compact fluorescent om a smash-proof enclosure which has lasted about 5 or 6 years.

Do I use a normal domestic compact flash or LED bulb, or is there a special version more resilient to either low/high temperatures, or moisture?

Thanks

Ferdinand

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I put in a CF into our outside light at work, it lasted about 7 years. Then put an LED one in, that has lasted about 8 years now.

I no longer work at that place.

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No no no - you over complicate that massively !

 

So you have home automation running a tpu . Cctv ip camera linked to tpu .You can then identify if a person . Tpu then triggers a zigbee relay . Zigbee relay turns on light . Easy peasy until it (expletive deleted)s up of course ! . Then you can have any type of light .

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31 minutes ago, Pocster said:

No no no - you over complicate that massively !

 

So you have home automation running a tpu . Cctv ip camera linked to tpu .You can then identify if a person . Tpu then triggers a zigbee relay . Zigbee relay turns on light . Easy peasy until it (expletive deleted)s up of course ! . Then you can have any type of light .

 

I'm not sure I should admit this but that is pretty much what I've got! Specifically, a Reolink Doorbell with AI person detection that triggers a Shelly smart relay to turn the porch light on. It was born out of an overreaction of being annoyed by the PIR sensor triggering in the wind! Overkill, yes, but it works ridiculously well. 

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Just now, MJNewton said:

 

I'm not sure I should admit this but that is pretty much what I've got! Specifically, a Reolink Doorbell with AI person detection that triggers a Shelly smart relay to turn the porch light on. It was born out of an overreaction of being annoyed by the PIR sensor triggering in the wind! Overkill, yes, but it works ridiculously well. 

Yous me bro 

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8 minutes ago, MJNewton said:

It has night vision too! 

So only recognizes your black and white friends.

 

Or the hot ones.

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18 minutes ago, MJNewton said:

 

Are you accusing my doorbell of being racist? 😉

Well as it has AI, yes.

Likes green people.

 

This is @Pocster taking a walk in the woods, without a dog.  Not sure what he expects to find.

 

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5 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

Well as it has AI, yes.

Likes green people.

 

This is @Pocster taking a walk in the woods, without a dog.  Not sure what he expects to find.

 

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I’m actually shitting in the woods thanks 

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