ALEXA TURNED ON MY LIGHTS :Accidental light during flowering dark period

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Raswarriorfari

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I am 4 weeks into flower and everything was going great. Tonight Alexa heard the wrong command and turned on my greenhouse light. My dark period usually starts around 6:30pm. The light accidentally came on at 8:00pm and I noticed at 9:25. Should I worry about hermies? All help is appreciated.
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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Livingblacksoil said:
Priorities of 'growers' blows my old school mind
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I still prefer maps, and I predetermine my drives and write down my own directions. Computers only know what we tell them. I don't trust the Navi shit, because they can actually send you in circles around a place which doesn't exist, lol.
 
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Gro-n-again

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speedwell68 said:
I have been using Google Assistant to control my grows for a couple of years and I would never go back to timers. A top tip is not to call you smart switches things like "light", that way it can't be confused with any other device. My lights are the Tardis, my fans are the Warp Drive and my heater is the Flux-Capacitor.
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If it works for you.... To me it's just another layer of bs waiting to become an issue. But I long for cars with manual windows and locks. Less chips and expensive repairs.

But analog timers aren't without fault. I've bought more of the plug-in ones than I can remember and wasn't fond of any of them.
Wasn't a big issue until I switched to 1k's, those things ate wall timers. Switched to intermatic mechanicals and haven't had any issues...except for that one tripper that got twisted up like a pretzel.
 
VincenzioVonHook

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Gro-n-again said:
If it works for you.... To me it's just another layer of bs waiting to become an issue. But I long for cars with manual windows and locks. Less chips and expensive repairs.

But analog timers aren't without fault. I've bought more of the plug-in ones than I can remember and wasn't fond of any of them.
Wasn't a big issue until I switched to 1k's, those things ate wall timers. Switched to intermatic mechanicals and haven't had any issues...except for that one tripper that got twisted up like a pretzel.
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I've amazingly had good luck with $5 timers. It's exactly 9:09 every time the lights switch off, and 3:08 every time it turns on. Im pretty sure the one I'm using now is like 10 years old as well.

Watch. It'll fuck out on me tonight now.
 
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Gro-n-again

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VincenzioVonHook said:
I've amazingly had good luck with $5 timers. It's exactly 9:09 every time the lights switch off, and 3:08 every time it turns on. Im pretty sure the one I'm using now is like 10 years old as well.

Watch. It'll fuck out on me tonight now.
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What kinda power are you pulling from them though? Like I said I never had trouble until I went from 400w to 1,000. Even then I had intermatics heaviest wall timer, 20A. They seemed like the trippers just barely switched them and sometimes they wouldn't switch. I got fed up and bought dedicated mechanical timers and I'm much happier. But initially I guess I didn't have the tripper square on the wheel when I tightened it down.... that timer twisted that tripper into a pretzel shape.
 
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