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Friends installed a new IR controlled ceiling light, but it was a little buggy and kept turning off.

It was using the same IR frequency as one of the buttons on the TV remote :)




Haha, yeah IR isn't foolproof either. We bought some bottom-of-the-barrel Chinese humidifier, and it reacted to absolutely anything IR, even sunlight sometimes.


433mhz radio is better because of that for that kind of devices :) there are products out there.




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