Re: Best approach to HA for lighting control

[Stephen Birch <sgbirch@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a similar problem having just bought a largish Georgian house. 
In
my case, the house has already been renovated so installing wires is
unattractive.  I took a long look at the various wireless solutions and
believe z-wave will probably solve the problem.

The only issue is a lack of TRV valves.  The only one on the market is made
by Danfoss, and they seem to be using z-wave as the transport for
a proprietary system,  Very narrow minded.

Lightwaverf is also promising but their products lack two way comms.  That
is not reliable enough for my taste.

So ... I keep waiting!

Lightwaverf is working on a new "pro" series which will be two
way, that
may be the solution.

Steve



On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:14 PM, James Reed <james@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> **
>
>
> Hi
>
> I'm in the middle of buying a house, which is a largish Victorian
> terrace. It needs a lot of work but we are going to have to do it in
> stages because we can't afford a full scale renovation in one go - and
> anyway we have to live in it!
>
> I'd love to embed some HA really to do lighting control to begin with
> although I'd like to extend it to other things in due course. I've got
> some Homeeasy products at the moment, and although I found the
switched
> sockets good the lighting modules / dimmers have been unreliable and
I'm
> not really satisfied with it as a permanent / long term solution. Also
I
> hear that lightwaverf has similar issues and it does not seem to be
well
> supported either.
>
> I've looked at things like c-bus wireless which looks much better but
is
> expensive. Ideally I would like to use a wired solution with cat5
> everywhere, and this may prove possible but it would have to be done
> room by room.
>
> If I was going to use c-bus could I do it on a piecemeal basis or
would
> it need to be done in one go? ALso do I need a specialist installer or
> could it be done diy or with help from a general electrician? Are
there
> any other systems I should consider? I don't have much budget for this
> so would prefer to be cheaper if poss but I'm aware that you get what
> you pay for and I've not found HE that good even though it was cheap.
>
> I'd be grateful for any thoughts
>
> James
>
>
>


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