Re: Complete HA system

["David Gumbrell" <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter,

Perhaps you should look at Idratek: www.idratek.com.

They have an integrated system which will cover most of your requirements,
although audio for music purposes you will need to do by other means - I
think this is typical of most of the HA systems - you can integrate remote
control via IR. The main control software runs on a PC. The PC doesn't need
to be particularly high spec for basic control, more power is needed if you
want CCTV functions and speech recognition. The system design includes a
fallback mode (called Reflex) that can takeover if the PC fails and provide
basic functionality (actually quite advanced functionality if you program
it, but since the PC rarely fails in my experience a basic fallback is good
enough). The system is a wired system, similar in that sense to EIB.

Their modules would come in somewhere between EIB and X10 pricewise.
Dimming
is currently available via Rako or X10  modules, their own dimmer is
expected to be fully available shortly. They have distribution in Poland,
which may or may not be of use to you.

I have been using their system for quite a while now (
http://www.gumbrell.com/archives/home_automation/),
and there are a few
other users on the list.

Cheers,

David


On 11/1/06, maczi321 <peti-ke@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Hi Everyone,
>
> I have checked out a lot of technologies concerning home automation,
> but there are too many out there to understand the advantages and the
> disadvantages of them. I have a small flat (2 rooms, 1 bathroom, 1
> kitchen + diner) and I want to setup a full featured HA system in this
> small flat. I considered first EIB or X10. EIB is too expensive, and
> X10 is an old technology. I live in Hungary, and HA systems are not
> really popular here so far. EIB products cost a lot of money.
>
> Features i would like to have:
> - audio systems in all rooms
> - light scenes with dimming options
> - heating and ventillation and air conditioning, also how can i
> control a regular stocker with HA
> - I also want to have integrated security with motion sensors
>
> For me this HA system seems to be very complicated, but I hope it can
> be done with a small budget. I would like to have some central unit
> like a PC operating beneath the HA, but also would be good, if the PC
> gets broken, the HA is able to work without PC interaction. I have
> seen so many solutions out there for these problems, I just simply
> cannot decide. I'm an IT technician so hopefully I can do all the work
> by myself.
>
> I would appreciate any suggestion, ideas or solutions for these
> problems. Anything that you guys have tried and proved to be stable
> and working over time.
>
> Thank You all very much !!!
> Peter
>
>
>


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