Now that the dining room is sorted, I am going to finish up the installation of the devices I recently bought.

Upstairs, I installed OutletLinc devices just outside the front door, I have put them in covers that are rated for "wet when in use" so hopefully that satisfies code.

Downstairs, I installed a new box near the old one to hold the InLineLincs for the overhead kitchenette lights (relay) and the eyeball lights (dimmer). I used an old bit of wire removed from the attic to connect this box to the existing box and this gives me plenty of room to house everything in j-boxes.

Where the switches used to be, I installed a KeypadLinc dimmer, with the load wire capped off, and an InLineLinc dimmer for the bar lights. In the boxes I had to use some _huge_ wire nuts to accommodate the half dozen or so 10ga wires in each bundle. This was after trying to piggy back wires in multiple smaller wire nuts. If you are contemplating doing this, I would suggest just going out and buying a couple of bags of the big wire nuts and saving yourself the frustration. You will end up at the store anyway.

Once all the electrical connections were made, I added them to plcd. These were the first devices to be added with I2CS since making the changes to add manual steps into the linking process. I am happy to report that it worked like a champ and the devices are now linked into the PLM and are controllable. The devices also responded to the PLM's attempts to link them as controllers too, except for the slight problem that OutletLincs and InLineLincs are responder only devices, so the network ends up in a very strange state with the PLM and each device both looking for controllers. This can be cleared with the set buttons on each of the devices, but it's still a nuisance.