This remote controlled switch circuit can control AC loads such as lights, fans etc through the remote handset of TV. It uses the 555 timer in the bistable mode. In the bistable mode output IC555 ...

many of which have simple circuit-based on/off control for lights. [Paulo Borges] has created something quite different, however, with his in-the-wall servo-controlled light switch. This build ...

Back when he was first starting out in electronics he built this infrared-controlled light switch that works with a standard TV remote ... The circuit still has a switch to manually control ...