Adding Remote Control to Lights

[Jetheat]

I am building a seating area with a roof at the bottom of my garden.

I plan to install 10 long vertical lights on the wall in that area.

But I would like to switch them on from the house, possibly via Wifi or a remote control.

These lights do not come with that capability.

Is there anything I can buy and connect that will allow me to turn the lights on/off from the house?

Apparently, the lights only come with a basic wire. See attachment.

These are the lights:
ebay.co.uk/itm/395493001521

Apprecaite the help,

JH

 

[pete01]

Quinetic switch and receiver maybe...

30m indoor range
160m outdoor range

Apparently

Quinetic 6A Wireless Switch Receiver | Quinetic (QUR303)

 

[Jetheat]

Thank you, does this mean I would need to run cables from every light switch to this controller?

JH

 

[SFK]

A nother voite frm me for Pete01 Quinetic switch

Quinetic 6A Wireless Switch Receiver | Quinetic (QUR303)

Or this as in a box

3 Gang Remote Controlled Switch Box - Black - IP66 | Knightsbridge (OP663GBK)

wrt
I would need to run cables from every light switch to this controller (not the switch).

You would run the mains cable from the house to the controller.
If controller is at one enbd ofthe lights then you would (typically) have one wire from the controller to the first light.
And then one wire from the first light to the second light.
And so on to the last light.

BUT....
That light you are showing looks worringly bad (eg 'Brown line of fire' I presume means 'Live'). And I am wondering if it is outside rated?
How are you joining the cables that are outside to ensure no water ingression?
Are you considering means to reduce chnages of electruction (cable type, RCD on consumer unit (fuse box) etc?

SFK

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I plan to install 10 long vertical lights on the wall in that area.

But I would like to switch them on from the house, possibly via Wifi or a remote control.

These lights do not come with that capability.

Is there anything I can buy and connect that will allow me to turn the lights on/off from the house?

If your wifi reaches out to there, and you have a 13amp socket out there - Get a Smart Plug, compatible with Alexa. You can program it for on/off, plus remote switch from absolutely anywhere.

 

[ericmark]

I use socket adaptors, the zigbee use each other as a relay for each other, so likely more range, the one bulb (smart) by my pond every so often looses contact, but in the main they work well.

 

[bernardgreen]

Simple solution No need for remote control
Run a cable from the house to the lights, put a switch in the cable inside the house

 

[Jetheat]

Simple solution No need for remote control

Run a cable from the house to the lights, put a switch in the cable inside the house

At the moment, I already have a spur in the garden. The whole new area will run off that spur.

 

[pete01]

I thought the idea was that you didnt want to run a cable from the house...

 

[morqthana]

But I would like to switch them on from the house, possibly via Wifi or a remote control.

In other words you want to be able to turn them on when there is nobody there to benefit from them. Why?

 

[pete01]

Well if you do use quinetic switch you can carry it up and down the garden if ya like....switch them from anywhere

 

[morqthana]

I plan to install 10 long vertical lights on the wall in that area.

I wouldn't call 80cm "long".

But given the poor English, and the utter dishonesty of using a "photoshopped" image like this:

to advertise lights where the longest available is 1m, I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole.

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[Jetheat]

I plan to use 2 x 80cm on top of one another to make 1.6m.

My spur in the garden will carry electricity to the back seating area, and from there the lights will connect to that connection.
But I need a way to turn them on from within the house.

JH

 

[morqthana]

What bad things happen if you have the switch where the lights are?

But in any event no successful remote switching, nor stacking of lights, gets round the fact that that eBay seller is dishonest.

 

[yorksbuilder]

ZigBee switches work great for this