Upon returning I was determined to fix this and get my remote sockets working. Again I started with a re-install followed by a upgrade to Jessie. Found a how to guide (for Rpi b+) so followed that and bingo. It worked, so I had to put the plugs in learning mode. After a few attempts I finally got it to learn signals on both, at this point I was happy. I done all this testing on my 8GB card, I was confident that I could achieve this on my already working 32GB. I swapped to my 32GB card and powered it up, which gave me nothing but a blank screen and red indicator on the board. So I thought it was the card playing up, so swapped back to my 8GB and guess what same happened with that card. I though the pi-mote board had shortened out and broke my Pi2. After some research i found out it was the SD card, so I kindly re-installed my 32Gb for the 600th time. Everything come back and in working order, but I wanted to remove the unwanted shit like x11 as it's a server not a desktop. I finally got this down to using 500mb space rather than 2GB and with a upgrade to Jessie using around 15mb more I was happy to proceed to installing energenie. Followed the steps again and got it all working on the 32GB card and sockets learnt everything was fantastic.
It came with a script to get sockets paired up etc. Not great if you want to turn sockets off/on at different times. Obviously if you know python it's not a problem, for those who don't I will be uploading a basic script to turn sockets on/off
Mine is controlled via cron, the range isn't great through walls. If you can solder then you can add an antenna (hole pre-drilled) and labelled.
Next project will be the weather station! Coming next month, looking forward to that. My raspberry pi2 is nearly complete when this last project is completed of course another project will appear in the future.
