ᐅ Outdoor light with dusk-to-dawn sensor? Is that available?

Hello everyone,

we are also facing a problem:
Our electrician didn’t point out during construction that my lighting concept was not well thought out.
He installed everything exactly as I wanted, so we have no dusk sensor control on the front of our house.
Our two up-down lights in the gable are controlled by one switch. The same applies to two lights on the left side of the house and two lights on the right side. So: 3 switches for 6 lights.
Of course, we often forget to turn off the lights in the morning and turn them on in the evening – in short, we need a proper installation for this.
Since we’re not very familiar with electrical work and my husband refuses to use Google, I thought about new lamps with a dusk sensor. First, to replace the up-down lamps, since one is already weakening and these lamps have built-in LEDs. Only now do I realize that this was a big mistake.
The requirements for these lamps would be: up-down for vertical façade lighting, LED for low energy consumption, dusk sensor, modern gray/black color, replaceable light bulb.
[I’ve been googling for days and can’t find anything.]

-> Do you have anything like this? Do you know where to find such lamps?

The secondary issue is that we have external thermal insulation composite system (ETICS) on the house, so we want to change the lamps as little as possible in the long term.

-> Do you have any alternatives? … regarding regular up-down lights without dusk sensors but with an external dusk sensor? How does that work? Does this small rectangular sensor device have to be connected next to each lamp? Or is there an adjustable control unit somewhere? In the electrical cabinet? Can something be installed in the switches? A timer switch? I once had electric blinds with an intelligent timer switch—can something like that be used? Would it be a problem that we only have a half switch?

Is it worth having an electrician come to set up everything properly at once?

Have a nice weekend,
Yvonne

Hello Yvonne,
as an alternative, you could also consider using built-in timers instead of switches. These are available for almost every switch system. If the 6 lamps are always supposed to turn on together, I would also connect them together.

We have installed timers with an "astro function" for our outdoor lights in the fuse box.

This is especially easy when the lights are on a separate circuit.

We have outdoor lights from Steinel, the L800 and L810. Could these be suitable for you?
However, I assume you are referring to those up-and-down spotlights.

@Abzahler
Unfortunately, the lamps are only equipped with LED boards. When they fail, the entire lamp has to be replaced. This is the biggest downside the industry has come up with. I’m only noticing it now. And yes: they are not an option because of the lighting.
At the moment, we have the Canto from Nordlux.

Garden side

Entrance side (which is now about to give out)
@Jochen
Yes, I was thinking about those built-in timer switches with astro function.
However, in our setup the switches share a single slot.

So we would need to have the circuits swapped.
For that, we need an electrician. Then we could also integrate a rectangular sensor “into the circuit,” which would likely comply properly with regulations and work satisfactorily.
And searching for lamps would be easier.
As it is now, I am really dissatisfied and unfortunately getting a bit worked up over it.

Junckyhör...
The outdoor lighting is unfortunately not protected by a separate fuse or circuit breaker.

If all three switches are located together in one place, you can connect them and install a timer with an astro function in between.

It probably doesn’t get any simpler than that.