Can i take power from a switched live?

Can i take power from a switched live?

Can i take power from a switched live?

Hi, I think I probably know the answer to this but would appreciate any advice.

I was hoping to wall mount a raspberry pi zero and portable monitor, I thought I could run both off the lighting circuit by adding a socket from an existing switch. Looking at this however I see it's a switched live that runs to an outside light.

I don't think I could now run anything between the outside light and this switch. I could not take a feed from any other ceilling light and socket ring to this...

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by Ssm2200

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