RE: Home Automation Integration and touchscreen front end

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ben,

Are you sure smartfit will give you enough for your needs (being only a
single zone controller). I used to have that but then moved over to
Honeywell Hometronic which is much more capable (but of course, more
expensive).

Cheers,

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Ben McCormack
> Sent: 04 January 2009 16:16
> To: UKHA Mailinglist
> Subject: [ukha_d] Home Automation Integration and touchscreen front
end
>
> All
>
> As I am suer many of you are aware we have recently moved into a new
> house that needs renovation. This has given me the chance to automate
> the house. I have tried to use best of breed in each area where
> possible and integrate systems as well.
>
> I have arrived at the following scheme
>
> Lighting : Cbus
> Alarm : Comfort
> Heating : Smartfit
> Temp Monitoing : 1-Wire using HA7Net. This is based on recent
> discussions.
> All the media in the house will be supplied from my Mac Mini Server
> and Sonos.
>
> cbus and Comfort are linked
> Comfort and Smartfit are linked
>
> So I have Lighting, Heating and Alarm integrated. So far Comfort will
> be my main interface so I can use Comfort keypads or the DECT phones
> in the house to control things.
>
> Now I have added 1-Wire I am starting to think how to integrate that
> and make intelligent decisions based on room temperature and also
> provide temp logging and graphing.
>
> There is one area that I don't think I have worked out yet and that is
> the overall control mechanism. I guess ideally I would like a couple
> of wireless touch-screens that could display information about the
> house and allow me to control various functions.
>
> I can see that homeseer could be used as an interface. It has plugins
> for most of my components.
>
> Are there any other options I could look at?
>
> Ben
>
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