garagelighting
I have a light switch in my garage that controls lights in front of my home. The switch is located in a corner of the garage where a large shelf has been stored. It is very difficult to the switch.
I'm looking for some sort of wireless receiver/transmitter that I can install to emulate the switch being turned on from inside of the house.
Does anything like this exist?
I suspect the white wire with the stripe is actually the switched power from the switch. Putting together what you have said, I think your setup probably looks something like this:
Where the green wire is the ground and the red wire is your wire with the stripe.
If this doesn't match up with what you are seeing, then let me know what looks wrong and I will try to figure out how it is setup.
You've pretty much got it. If you can twist wires with wire nuts and connect them to a switch you have the technical skills needed. The hardest part is usually pulling the wire from the wall into the ceiling.
Remember: all wire has to be anchored to the work boxes, and all splices/connections made inside the work boxes.
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There are plenty of remote switches on the market, especially if your light is (or can be) plugged into a wall socket.
One thing you should seriously consider, however: security. X10 devices - and the cheap'n'cheerful stuff - DO NOT encrypt their control signals, so it's scarily possible that criminals might remotely turn off the lights in front of your house for their own purposes. Unencrypted wireless signals should ONLY be used for stuff where interference or disruption won't cause any damage.
INSTEON, Z-Wave, and Zigbee were all built with security/encryption in mind; I'm sure none of them will make Fort Knox feel insecure, but they should be at least as hard to crack as your garage door opener, anyway.