Holiday
We moved into our new house to discover an annoying 4 am schedule on the smart light switches left by the previous owners, causing all the lights in two bedrooms to turn on. We also needed new fans, lighting fixtures, and additional smart light switches installed, but resolving the schedule issue was our priority. So, we called Sin City Electric, hoping for a solution and a quote for the other work. The guy who came out told us point-blank that the switches were useless – locked to the previous owner's account and unresettable, apparently. His solution? Just replace them. Fine, whatever. We shelled out to replace two of the three and left the last one stubbornly turning on at 4 am. Then, I'm talking to a friend, half-laughing, half-cursing about the whole ordeal and how we had to replace perfectly good smart switches. My friend looks at me like I'm an idiot and says, 'you know you can just reset those on the switch itself, right?' I literally asked chat gpt and got all the instructions. All we had to do was hold the switch down for 10 seconds and it reset. We were even able to download the app and link the remaking switch to it. Took all of 5 minutes. Seriously?! He doubted that any electrician in 2025 wouldn't know this and basically told us we got ripped off. It was a waste of money but glad we learned a lesson with a small job and we dodged a very expensive bullet.
