Re: Lutron, LiteTouch, JDS or Instabus/EIB?

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 09 December 2001 17:09 pm, Gilad Keinan wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I’m building now a new house and want it to be “smart” one - which
> system to buy: Lutron, LiteTouch, JDS or Instabus/EIB? I’m a
programmer
> and want to “play” with the system’s software by myself - which is the
> best from this point of view? Where can I find a comparison between
all
> these four? Is there another system which is better then all these
four?

I have no experience of the above systems (good start eh!) but have you
thought of using X10 at all?

With X10 you can have many of the same features as the above, at a
drastically reduced cost, and you have the advantage of the X10 protocol
being open and viewable by anyone ... (the others maybe, I don't know)

I'm sure X10 is the most flexible, with so many different controllers
available (Homevision, Homeseer, Misterhouse, Comfort to name just 4) all
of
which give you massive amounts of scope to program the system.

Also, building your own house will let you wire for DIN rail X10 modules,
which is a much neater solution then plug in modules everywhere.

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