Brett Davidson wrote, On 20/04/09 11:29:
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.
Lots of Cat6 to everywhere.
Put in draw wires for future use.
Run some 100 mm conduit to every building on the property.
And plenty of power points and power capacity.
A separate circuit for each room is handy too.
Electrically isolate the kitchen/laundry/AC/heatpump/HWC/bathroom from
all the other rooms.
As for actual automation stuff... I have no idea.
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Craig Falconer
