This was a fun personal project to automate my chrismas lights using a set of Etekcity RC outlets and a Raspberry Pi. In order to control the outlets I hacked into the remote control buttons and connected them to the Raspberry Pi using relays. I used the Pi’s GPIO capabilities and programmed a timer and a couple of blinker scripts in Python.

The next step for this project is to expand the use of the outlets to my indoor lamps and set up a web server to control them from an app.