1960s House Rewire - Lighting control?

[Ste Daniels <ste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I'm hopefully moving into a 1960's era house in the next 3 months. It needs
a total rewire and I'd like to get the main room lights (and perhaps
table/stand lights) under some automation control. The main controller
might
be linux/xap based or something along those lines. If I've got to run a
copy
of Windows on a virtual machine I'm open to that if needs must.

This will be my first house, so I'm on a tight budget. With that in mind
I'm
looking at X10 din rail dimmers with momentary switches in the traditional
like switch locations (backed up with a couple of runs of CAT5e just in
case.

Are there any alternatives these days? I've not really looked into it that
much recently.

As an aside I'll possibly be going with Bye Bye Standby sockets for
appliance control as their cheap as chips. Working on completing an xAP
gateway for these. What are the alternatives here? Based on the costs of
running sockets back to banks of din appliance modules I'll definitely be
avoiding that!

Thanks for your thoughts,

Steve

P.S. I'll be flooding the house with substantial CAT5e..


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