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IanJ wrote:

I'd like a single dimmer switch on the wall near the door to control
the ceiling lighting.
A dimmer capable of controlling both bed side lights, and ceiling
lights on each side of the bed.

If the switch near the wall was turned on upon entry to the room,
could I turn the ceiling lights off from the bedside controls?

I've got a similar set up with one exception. I'll describe mine.

At the door, a single two way switch. At the bed two other switches, one
either side, (one an intermediate) which control all the lights.
'Downstream' of this master circuit are dimmers for overhead lights and
one either side of the bed for reading lights. The one snag would be that
if all the lights were turned off on their dimmers, you couldn't turn any
on at the door, but in practice this doesn't occur.

Now what you also want is two way dimmer control of the overhead lights?
These do exist, but I can't remember who makes them. ;-)

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Dave Plowman London SW 12
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