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Originally Posted by 1990C4S
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Yeah the whole detection approach would not work well, hard to explain (should take a pic) but the shape of the staircase/ceiling is like this : \_ with the light under the bottom part... which would make detection of someone coming down very difficult until they are 2/3 of the way down the steps... Again it's for the young ones to be able to get down there without bugging us all the time... I could wait till they grow out of it, it's really for the 5y old... I'll try the switch approach and if that does not work I'll wire something permanently... The correct solution is it wire into the same circuit as the top of the stairs, but that would require a trip to a nasty attic, identifying the right one light without breaking thru the ceiling, drilling the ceiling into a closet, extending that wire down and drilling the closet floor (which is the ceiling for the floor below) hopefully in the right spot, cutting and installing a new light... You can see how battery power sounds attractive ! ;-)
The house if built on the side of a hill, there is a big deck upstairs that works as a sunshade a little too well, so between that and the lack of a window in that area it's awfully dark downstairs, there is a 10-15F difference in temps in summer!!! crazy ! That is my main beef with that house, it's tora Bora downstairs with the lights off ;-)