Re: Home Automation Dealers in Chch?

[Brett Davidson]

A long long time ago (in a galaxy near us however) Andrew Errington and 
John Carter corresponded about Home Automation in Christchurch.

Andrew appeared to use dedicated microcontroller chips and John was 
pondering about X10 at that time (July 2007).

I am building a new house at present and am looking at what control 
systems are out there worth considering implementing as this will help 
me what and where I should pre-wire and where I can use IR or bluetooth, 
etc. I want to do it all - switch audio/video along with control of 
appliances and monitoring of energy usage, etc.

There's CBus, Qnet, Emax, and a whole host of others with wildly 
optimistic promises hence I wondered what (if any) experience people on 
this list had in the real word.

Tie in to Linux - I would prefer that this be Linux (via embedded or 
not) control as I want as little proprietary content as possible.

Cheers,
Brett.