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  1. Just seen a little child pressing the 🙂

  2. Got 3 days use out of my 22500mAh battery for 🙂

    Ordered another one (as only £10) so I can have a hot spare to try and achive better SAL compliance 🙂

  3. Getting a few button presses per day now and I've made the lights dim up and down thanks to help from the forum :)

  4. Updated my code to flash the LED every 10 seconds and added in an LWT so I know when the battery dies

  5. Someone must have pressed the green button as I was out at 11:30 🙂

  6. Tested out with daughters car parked between it and the WiFi router and it still worked :)

    Came up with couple of ideas
    1. Implement Last Will and Testament on the connection to detect when box goes offline

    2. Make it flash the 10mm white LED to attract attention of people passing by

  7. The box is now screwed to the garden wall and operational :)

    So D1 Mini board in there with a 20Ah battery, running script publishing using to my broker cymplecy.uk on topic gardenlights. This received by on Pi in my house which uses UDP to update colour of the lights and also toots out to cheerlights

  8. The new ones plugged into the existing ones so now got double the lumens out there now :)

    // @amcewen