Fw: Which HA standard to use for first home?

[Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think Comfort and a CBUS UCM module is about =A3500 ? Nigel Harding
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give you some good prices, he of ex-Comfort UK.

You'd then plug the CBUS wireless gateway into the Comfort CBUS UCM=20
module. The rest of CBUS can be wireless then. All your CBUS devices can=20
be dumb and let Comfort handle all the logic.=20

With ZWave, my CBUS switches can control them, via Comfort. No PC's in=20
sight - all solid state.




I've seen a little about the Comfort system, do you have some rough
prices for the setup of the main control system?

I presume the Comfort & CBus UCM is wired? or am I wrong here?  At the
moment I'm looking for a wireless solution.

It would be good talk to someone with some experience.  I'm duncan dot
sample at gmail if you use Jabber.

Duncan

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Gareth Cook <g@...> wrote:
> Duncan
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> I've now got Comfort connected to my main CBUS network, and some old
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> Comfort has CBUS and ZWave UCM's to control them centrally. I dont
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> logic at all.
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> Happy to talk offline if you're interested in any of these.
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>  The prices on your blog seem high - you'll prob find you can get
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> Hi
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> I've been following HA things on and off for a few years, and finally
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> getting my first home, so am researching more thoroughly now.  I've
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> What I'm looking for is some feedback on my blog post, as it details
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> pretty much all my thoughts of the different standards and I'd like to
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yet.
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http://www.sample.org.uk/blog/?action=3Dpost&post=3Dhome_automation_standar=
ds
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> I'm planning on documenting my whole journey and since the software
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> I've seen so far is pretty rubbish-looking I may end up writing my
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> Thanks
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> Duncan
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