Good morning everyone. I am planning a home automation project for my new (to me) home. The house was built in 2003, has two stories, and is approximately 6,000 square feet. I would like remote control (at least) and hopefully automation for the following, in order of priority:
- Lighting
- Alarm integration (I have an ELK M1)
- Air conditioning
- Sprinklers
- Door locks
- Garage door
- Leak detectors
I have purchased a Hometroller S6, which I plan to use as the brains of the system. I have purchased three Z-Net devices which will be set up in a master-slave configuration to control my door locks and a network of motion detectors and other sensors. I have purchased and installed Wifi-connected air-conditioning (Ecobee3) and sprinkler (Rainmachine) controllers.
My main question pertains to lighting control. I am concerned about reliability, functionality and maintainability of Z-wave to control the approximately 75 dimmer switches I will need. I am considering UPB lighting as an alternative. I have looked at RadioRA2 but I am not pleased with their integration capabilities with third-party controllers.
If I use all Z-wave Plus-certified hardware (such as Homeseer's new dimmer switches plus my three Z-nets), can I hope to achieve a comparable level of functionality and reliability to what I could get from UPB? What about Wifi? (I have a home system with commercial-grade network hardware). Short of paying someone $60K to install a Lutron or Control4 system for me, cost is not really the issue. Thanks everyone.
- Lighting
- Alarm integration (I have an ELK M1)
- Air conditioning
- Sprinklers
- Door locks
- Garage door
- Leak detectors
I have purchased a Hometroller S6, which I plan to use as the brains of the system. I have purchased three Z-Net devices which will be set up in a master-slave configuration to control my door locks and a network of motion detectors and other sensors. I have purchased and installed Wifi-connected air-conditioning (Ecobee3) and sprinkler (Rainmachine) controllers.
My main question pertains to lighting control. I am concerned about reliability, functionality and maintainability of Z-wave to control the approximately 75 dimmer switches I will need. I am considering UPB lighting as an alternative. I have looked at RadioRA2 but I am not pleased with their integration capabilities with third-party controllers.
If I use all Z-wave Plus-certified hardware (such as Homeseer's new dimmer switches plus my three Z-nets), can I hope to achieve a comparable level of functionality and reliability to what I could get from UPB? What about Wifi? (I have a home system with commercial-grade network hardware). Short of paying someone $60K to install a Lutron or Control4 system for me, cost is not really the issue. Thanks everyone.
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