Home Automation

[Stevie h]

Any of you lads know much about home automation?

What is a good system? is it something you could do yours self with the right kit?

Me and a friend have the go ahead on the electrics on a very very plush new build, the owner is now looking at getting an all singing all dancing home automation system fitted

so he has had a guy out, registered and using this stuff > KNX home automation systems

the cost to supply the gear , program the whole system is

 

[steptoe]

someone on here has the know how,

sorry I just cant remember who, :Blushing

badger by any chance?

deffo somebody does quite a bit of it.

 

[Technician]

What does

 

[ProDave]

What does

 

[Barx]

Well I have never done home automation but at 80 circuits I would say it's likely to be 1 per outlet / fitting. That way they can all be switched/controlled individually. I have no idea if all these go to one panel though or whether sub panels are used (which I would assume would required submains to supply). Like I said, I really have no idea. Sorry

 

[Technician]

Feng Shui; Chinese. Shui; sense. Feng; More money than.

With that quantity of copper around the house, look out for the

Pikeys and a blackout.

 

[Ash]

I try and convince a customer to me doing clever switching the traditional way than expensive home automation.

More things to go wrong with data and programming.

Just my opinion, living in the past, not looking to the future etc.

Half the kits are gonna suffer issues when iPads aren't the "in" gadget anymore

 

[wozz]

Ian (some numbers) does C-Bus i think. If someone has enough money to have it installed good for them, the company I was going to work for you would have got a couple of screens for around 40k let alone the rest of the system.

 

[ProDave]

The other concern of course is what happens in 10 or 20 years, when it goes wrong, and it's an obsolete system and no longer supported?

From what I have seen these things have effectively data cables (cat5/6?) from the switches to a control rack in a cupboard. I guess all the light fittings are wired from that control rack.

 

[NozSpark]

I was talking with a guy who does this kind of thing locally to me, apparently the switches are connected by Cat 5 to a central control point and they are adressable so you can put several switches (I think he said 5) on the same run, all the lights are run from there individually using T&E. I think he uses the Lutron kit

 

[wozz]

The other concern of course is what happens in 10 or 20 years, when it goes wrong, and it's an obsolete system and no longer supported?From what I have seen these things have effectively data cables (cat5/6?) from the switches to a control rack in a cupboard. I guess all the light fittings are wired from that control rack.

You are rich enough to rip it out and have the new gear installed, or if you sell the house the new owners are rich enough to have it ripped out as they want the same system they have in their other houses around the world.