Doug Kanter wrote:

Seriously, if any of the applications are in a place where you can install
an old style mechanical Intermatic timer (grey metal box), perhaps in the
cellar. Do it. Absolutely trouble free, no batteries, no nonsense.

Well, I'm fed up, yes, but I haven't yet reached the point where I'm
willing to tackle the "horror" (as you put it) of wiring a new box.
And in this house, I won't even begin to tell you the horrors that that
would entail.