Might have figured out why Phoscon / Deconz thinks my bulbs are sockets

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Sat Feb 20

Strange thing in the study, the remote control for the lights suddenly started turning the beer fridge on and off. How can that happen? They were not previously connected. It's a complicated chain of events but must be that

the beer fridge is plugged into the four-way Lidl extension lead
when I first set up the extension lead only one socket on it linked to the Google Home (I thought this was perhaps by design)
when I tried to link the three IKEA GU10s to the Phoscon app it didn't recognise the bulbs but it did find the Lidl sockets
when I thought I was linking the IKEA remote back to the bulbs it was really linking it to the extension lead

So some things are working OK, just not the things I expected.

Yes my house is a bit too complex.

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