{"id":1695,"date":"2018-08-02T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2018-08-02T07:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:00:47","slug":"the-lights-are-on-but-no-one-is-home-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/02\/the-lights-are-on-but-no-one-is-home-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"The lights are on, but no-one is home (yet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are a couple of weeks away from moving in.\u00a0 The electrical has been signed off, and we can at last turn on lights, sort of.<\/p>\n<p>We are using a Lutron Homeworks QS system, which uses digital switches.\u00a0 The switches talk to the &#8220;brain&#8221; which in turn commands the appropriate &#8220;wall box power modules&#8221; to turn circuits on, or, and sets an dim level.\u00a0 These are really just intelligent relays.\u00a0 Because our system is not yet programmed, we can only turn on all circuits in a module with a single button.\u00a0 All on, or all off.<\/p>\n<p>But the house sure does look pretty at night with all (most all) of the lights on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1696\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2011-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2011-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2011-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_2011-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are hoping to get the programming done in the next week so we can actually use the wall switches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a couple of weeks away from moving in.\u00a0 The electrical has been signed off, and we can at last turn on lights, sort of. We are using a Lutron Homeworks QS system, which uses digital switches.\u00a0 The switches talk to the &#8220;brain&#8221; which in turn commands the appropriate &#8220;wall box power modules&#8221; to<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/02\/the-lights-are-on-but-no-one-is-home-yet\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about The lights are on, but no-one is home (yet)<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}