Re: Smart home/electricity open standard

2017-05-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
For lighting you have DMX, X10 and zigbee as last mile protocols, artnet and ACN as open ethernet protocols, all of which can be controlled using the openlightingarchitecture. Note that controlling every aspect of your house requires a very large amount of wires, controllers etc. using control

Re: Smart home/electricity open standard

2017-05-21 Thread Elazar Leibovich
In that case, I recommend you to have a look at KNX. As I said, it's the only wired+wireless protocol that is open, and is manufactured by multiple producers for tens of years. It even have REST/xml-rpc gateway standard. It's a bit expensive, and the official program to program KNX components is a

Re: Smart home/electricity open standard

2017-05-21 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
Just like many I have a dream to "wire" my house with smart devices to control (and monitor) every aspect, but unfortunately I didn't have the time to implement any of it (yet) but I keep my eyes open on the matter and I follow the HackADay blog to learn about new stuff, this is how I came across

Re: Smart home/electricity open standard

2017-05-21 Thread Elazar Leibovich
OpenHAB is a software that uses many protocols to control smart devices. If you have experience with some type of smart electricity, I'm sure it'll be interesting to everyone to hear it. Thanks, On Sun, May 21, 2017, 3:40 PM Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: > There are many

Re: Smart home/electricity open standard

2017-05-21 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
There are many implementation and non of them are open standard (iirc) e.g - https://www.postscapes.com/internet-of-things-protocols/ If you looking to start smart home project, you should probably start with the server which will manage and will the intermediate for all protocols and devices --

Re: Smart home/electricity open standard

2017-05-21 Thread Elazar Leibovich
That it would be reasonable to interact with it with open source tools or at least from open source OS, and that I would be able to purchase hardware from multiple vendors. It's not strictly requires an open protocol, but it's a good approximation. Read what I need to reasonably work with KNX,

Re: Smart home/electricity open standard

2017-05-21 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
Please clarify what do you mean by "open standard for smart home" are you referring to the communication between devices ? -- Rabin On 21 May 2017 at 14:29, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > Hi, > Is there some open standard for smart home. > The only thing I've seen which is close