You start opening the door and the curtains gets automatically out of the way and opens. Imagine you want to go from the living room to the terrace. Let me start here with the most convenient functionality the motorized curtains is offering us, and that is opening and closing the curtains automatically with the sliding door movement. The fact that it is motorized and automated has a lot of advantages, that even my wife considers as “cool” features. Only this year we have decided to have a curtains on the big sliding door towards the terrace/garden entrance.
So I had nothing prepared for this in terms of wiring or any setup. Having a motorized curtains in living room was not the the initial plan at first place. That can not be said for Z-wave wall plates or switches for instance.Here is how I automated the electric curtains with Loxone. Any wall plate can be installed in any size or color.
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Plus hard-wiring a house for home automation allows for complete customization.
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Wifi works most of the time, but if you have the ability to install Cat6 or Cat5 into a house during the build then that's a no brainer. In my opinion it's comparable to using Wifi in a house. Being able to hard-wire a home for home-automation seems like a great choice if the owner has the ability to do it. There's a lot of home automation protocols out there ( ie ZigBee, Z-Wave Insteon, etc ), however they are all wireless solutions.
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Just update the latest version from Github.Īll the wall outlets? Seriously? What if you need to change the software? You power down your entire house? Then you lose your PC on which you need to make the software changes. Its interface will look great on smartphone or a touchscreen tablet mounted to a wall. The best thing about Home Assistant is that it's a responsive interface. However, in terms of future user interface, I see something like Home Assistant GitHub - home-assistant/core: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Open source software is the only viable option IMO. There's a ton of Home Automation Software on the market. How do you see the future user interface?
One light switch that could turn on all of the lights in the house at once. The proximity sensor, in this case would send a signal to the Home Automation software, and that software would turn the electrical relays connected to the lights off.
For example if a motion or proximity sensors are installed, lights could turn off when a room is empty. That's depends how the system is programmed. If insurance or other similar reasons aren't an issue for you, then I would just go completely custom for everything - provided it was the cheaper option, and you have the skills to make it electrically safe and robust to use for 20 years or so. You don't want to modify or otherwise change the controllers themselves, because doing so would bring into question any testing and certification (ie - UL standard or similar) that deems them "safe for use in a home environment" - again, this would be for insurance reasons. Basically, you want a line of demarcation between your system, and the actual devices controlling the electricity. Then - try to obtain the spec for actuating those contollers, or reverse-engineer the signals. If not either of those, then hard-wired would be OK (use in-wall or plenum rated cabling for the wiring, though - again, this is for any insurance coverage aspect) - but still, the control/actuation should happen at the light/plug - and those controllers should be COTS. Ideally, these controls would be RF actuated, or perhaps actuated/controlled via a signal over the mains power lines (ie - something like X-10, just more reliable). Personally, if I was tackling this project, I would try to use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) parts for the light and outlet controls (plus any other controls). If you don't have insurance (?) - then the above concern is moot, and you can do what you want, and you'll have to live with any potential consequences (but that's life). The real question is, should the unthinkable happen, and your house burns down, and the fire department or inspector determines it was due to an electrical issue (whether due to your system or not) - will your insurance policy cover your house for the damages?
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Yes, it would be possible - as far as whether you could get it to pass code inspection, that is unknown - maybe? Is it possible to safely mimic the above setup with Arduino, and make up to city code?
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