Re: 1960s House Rewire - Lighting control?

["bty727563" <derek.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

I've had good results using xAP and RF mains sockets. BBSB sockets are OK,
but not great (had one fail). For a 'few dollars more', the HE109 units
work really well and look a lot more professional.

My preferred control platform is the HomeAutomationHub - but then again, I
am one of the two guys who work on this project so am a bit biased.

Hope your rewire goes well.

Cheers,
Derek.

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Ste Daniels <ste@...> wrote:
>
> 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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>




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