I also still have the Loxone miniserver but not had a chance to set it up, the software looks a little more complicated than I had hoped but apparently it’s straight forward and with a DMX extension and some googling it looks very flexible and open to work with other products.Their tree topography does look very appealing though and I also really like their wall switches. They do have other software but node red will be the easiest to link to HA. If you are confident in node-red then this is excellent. I’m a little put off by the unipi PLC because of the NodeRed but other than that it is completely open source, easy to integrate into HA and has it’s own mini-forum. I’ve narrowed it down to either the unipi PLC or Loxone.
There’s a Grand Design Show in May, I’ll try and pick their brains.
#Loxone dmx dimmer professional
I’d love to know what kind of hardware professional guys who do home automation for a living use.
The railduino also looks really interesting and at least it’s a platform I’m kinda familiar with.Īnyway it’s early days and I’ve only just started looking into this. As I’m not that IT wizzy it may be good to get something with an infrastructure already in place instead of trying to build it myself. Then there’s loxone but that looks more intergrated than I would probably need but maybe not. Now, I’ve done some more research and KNX keeps coming up but sounds complicated, there’s Wago and Siemens devices but they make little sense to me at this stage, I’l have to look into this more but I have a feeling that Wago is something that could work, I will get in touch with them next week. There will still be wifi and zigbee device and over time I’ll add more stuff no doubt but the bulk of it needs to be wired. But frankly all that aside, it would be criminal to build a new house and not use the opportunity to wire it up to support central hardwired smartness! She even insists that we turn the wifi off at night and when we go on holiday! So if a burglar breaks in while we’re away or sleeping I would not have any CCTV footage of it I know… makes the whole thing kinda pointless but I really don’t even want to get into that now. My wife is against wifi for health reasons I guess and having all these devices is a necessary evil for her, the bedroom is a no go area and other than the a-lady nothing is wifi in there. Your house sounds alot like my current set up, loads of control with lots of different devices and protocols in play all OTA. I’ve checked with my electrician about the UK regulations and waiting his responce… I may need to get in touch with someone that knows a bit more about this sort of wiring, I think it’s quite unique as I’ve mentioned my upcoming build to him before and he looked a little confused
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