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Chris
You
might want to look at a seperate controller for your lighting
control
Either
dedicated cards on a PC or for easier programming
HomeVision
Comfort might be quite a handfull to operate a full house lighting
the
main problem you face is one of output ports
the
advantage of X10 is that for one interface you get 256 outputs ( A>P
1>16)
the
max for everything on Comfort is 64 and you can soon use those up on other
things
I
have
gone for comfort relay control in my garage for lighting and it works very
well
In my
house I use Homevision and X10 with varied control
(Computer/swithches/touchscreens/rf switches/pronto)
One
problem using secondary switches to control X10 or relays directly is that
your
main controller doesnt then know the state of the lights, this may not
matter,
but I find one master unit controling all lights and all control of those
lights
going to that controller allows for smooth automated control (if there is
such a
thing :) )
I
use
ACE to connect Homevision and Comfort together
hope
this helps
mike
I'm
sure this has been discussed before, but I'd apreciate to hear a fresh
round
of debate on this point. I'm doing a complete rewire on the house - so
there's
two choices for control of lighting: X-10 or Mains relays. Either way we're
gonna use a star pattern as this provides maximum longterm
flexibility.
I
figured LD11's are hard to beat for their versatility, but for switching
fluorescents, or applicances why spend £40 on an AD10 when I can have DIN
mounted relays for under a tenner? Of course a mains relay like this will
need
to be CAT fived back to the HA interface, but aren't relays more reliable
than
X-10 anyway?
So
here are my three questions:
1.
All things being equal in a star wiring pattern - would you go for DIN
mounted
relays or AD10s?
2.
Are there any obvious gotchas when hooking up manual (rocker type)
wall switches for local control if I go for the DIN
mounted relay option? Suppose for example I need two way control
for
the lights on the stairs?
3.
My consumer unit and DIN rails are all in the boiler room next to all the
HVAC
stuff. The boiler room is also very well sittuated for running wires almost
anywhere. However, Node Zero (Comfort, AV gear, Data Hub, Telephony etc) is
in
a large cupboard in the centre of the house. Given that I first need to
make the choice between AD10's verses DIN mounted mains relays - is
there
any particular advantage to having Comfort located close to the DIN
rails
in the boiler room rather than in Node Zero.
Thanks for your help
Chris
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