Controlling Garden lights with Alexa - Advice please.

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Dear All.

Looking to try and control my garden lights using Alexa. Currently, the run to the shed, which has power from the house. There is a switch that we can use to turn them on. They are LED floodlights , all running on 240v. Of course everytime that I want to turn them on, I have to walk out to the shed, and would be lovely to control them remotely, and also put them on a timer.

Would it be possible to put in a wifi module, like a Sonoff, to acheive this ? Which is the best and most reliable brand to go for, that works with Alexa most reliably ? There are about 250w of floodlights, so not a huge current draw.

Something like this ? Any advice gratefully appreciated. Thanks. Mel

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I'm actually looking to place a few of these around outside (with a waterproof box, obviously) to do the same thing. I was actually thinking of using a couple of Hue outdoor motion sensors to let me trigger all the lights when something is detected but I haven't decided yet.

I have Sonoffs already in use elsewhere and they're fine. I haven't used them with Alexa but it looks like they are compatible though so you should be good to go. A 10A switch like that should be good for ~2300w. They also sell a TH16 which is 15A (~3500w) if you needed to boil a kettle or something.

Unless you really want to tinker you probably don't need this but if you want more features I personally flashed the Tasmota firmware to mine which is excellent, you just need a £3 FTDI cable.
 
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