I’d love to know what the obsession is with reinventing the light switch. My parents house has “smart” lights and I swear to god if the bathroom light turns off or goes full intense spotlight mode while I’m pooping one more time I’m going to go insane. They have at least 6 different light switch designs and they all work differently.
I really, really miss the days when nearly everything was standardized to a pretty high degree. Ceiling light burned out? Pick up a replacement bulb the next time you're at the store, it's nearly guaranteed to fit. Now if a LED fixture goes out, the entire thing has to be replaced. Yet LED bulbs that replace incandescent bulbs work just fine. It honestly feels like what's happened with computer/phone/appliance/automobile user interfaces over the past 25 years starting with Apple products. Style (and not coincidentally, reduced manufacturing cost) triumphs over usability. And/or as with fast fashion, durability. Either way the consumer loses.
The simple answer is they have significantly larger margins. The installation is also way more expensive if you didn't set it up initially, since smart devices need neutral but traditional lights are hot-only.
This is how I understand a light switch's cabling for a single way switch. Unless it's the switch itself which is the "smart appliance", rather than it being a dumb switch and the lamp part that's not dumb.
I honestly detest nearly all modern showers. From the lack of privacy, and the fragility of all glass, to the now cheap appearance of massive slabs of tile that are faster to put up to the funky no-door, no-curtain ones that honestly feel like a shower stall in an institution.
I stayed in an airbnb with what they clearly thought was a very upscale bathroom, where there was no door, no curtain, and not even a wall for the shower. The floor just sloped down a little and turned some kind of polished river stones with built in drainage in one corner of the room. They clearly thought this was very elegant.
I myself thought it was very unnerving, standing under an open shower head in a cavernous slate room on a stone floor.. I felt like I was being put into some kind of Victorian institution, and an angry nun might come and dump a bucket of lye over my head any second.
One is dismissing the issue as a non-issue since an expensive fix could solve it, the other is pointing out that it's in a hotel and OP can't fix it. Reddit doesn't like people pointing out that we're spoilt in the first world, but we do like being validated in our problems. Just because it's a first world problem doesn't mean it's not a problem at all.
Why do modern infrastructure hate simple switches so much?
I’d love to know what the obsession is with reinventing the light switch. My parents house has “smart” lights and I swear to god if the bathroom light turns off or goes full intense spotlight mode while I’m pooping one more time I’m going to go insane. They have at least 6 different light switch designs and they all work differently.
I really, really miss the days when nearly everything was standardized to a pretty high degree. Ceiling light burned out? Pick up a replacement bulb the next time you're at the store, it's nearly guaranteed to fit. Now if a LED fixture goes out, the entire thing has to be replaced. Yet LED bulbs that replace incandescent bulbs work just fine. It honestly feels like what's happened with computer/phone/appliance/automobile user interfaces over the past 25 years starting with Apple products. Style (and not coincidentally, reduced manufacturing cost) triumphs over usability. And/or as with fast fashion, durability. Either way the consumer loses.
"Power saving"
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Sounds like microwave sensors. They're really sensitive
you don't have to insult them!
It’s a hotel
TBH thats better then in your own home
The simple answer is they have significantly larger margins. The installation is also way more expensive if you didn't set it up initially, since smart devices need neutral but traditional lights are hot-only.
Forgot that US wiring is weird.
No, almost all light switches are hot-only. There's no reason to hook it up with neutral.
I'm sorry, so they've got two live cables?
The neutral is from the panel to the light. It doesn't go near the light switch. There's no reason to bring the neutral to a standard light switch.
This is how I understand a light switch's cabling for a single way switch. Unless it's the switch itself which is the "smart appliance", rather than it being a dumb switch and the lamp part that's not dumb.
(hopefully the link will work correctly)
I feel like you're mixing up different things.
Your diagram is simply a switched hot. You can tell there's no neutral near the switch.
A switched hot allows you to connect two light switches to one set of lights. It has nothing to do with neutral.
I honestly detest nearly all modern showers. From the lack of privacy, and the fragility of all glass, to the now cheap appearance of massive slabs of tile that are faster to put up to the funky no-door, no-curtain ones that honestly feel like a shower stall in an institution.
My mom paid probably $10-12k for her newly renovated shower and bathroom. The door doesn't even stay put without wedging something.
My stepfather has been talking about doing his own renovations resulting in a doorless shower. Yikes.
It's uneven and that would persoanlly drive me nuts. I'd rather just have a bathtub with a shower head for no extra money lol.
I stayed in an airbnb with what they clearly thought was a very upscale bathroom, where there was no door, no curtain, and not even a wall for the shower. The floor just sloped down a little and turned some kind of polished river stones with built in drainage in one corner of the room. They clearly thought this was very elegant.
I myself thought it was very unnerving, standing under an open shower head in a cavernous slate room on a stone floor.. I felt like I was being put into some kind of Victorian institution, and an angry nun might come and dump a bucket of lye over my head any second.
I would definitely check a place like that for hidden cameras.
you’ll get your knuckles rapped with a yardstick for typing something like that
My shower is you average plastic box with nothing special to it and I couldn’t imagine it being any more efficient
I love taking showers in the dark
I'd try swapping it out for a dual technology sensor which uses ultrasonic in addition to infrared. Might help.
First world problems? You could also put it on a timer, or set the timer to be longer on the IR sensor
First world problems is correct, it’s in a hotel.
Both comments say first world problems, one is downvoted and the other upvoted.... what in the reddit is going on here
One is dismissing the issue as a non-issue since an expensive fix could solve it, the other is pointing out that it's in a hotel and OP can't fix it. Reddit doesn't like people pointing out that we're spoilt in the first world, but we do like being validated in our problems. Just because it's a first world problem doesn't mean it's not a problem at all.
Reddit sure loves to see things as black and white
Only a Sith speaks in absolutes.