Hello!
It's been years since I've posted here. In 2008 I did my first home automation project using CQC in a gut rehab.
I'm back and was hoping for some help with my next project! I'm about to start on a new gut rehab of our second home, and have gone 5 years stale on the industry. We're going to be opening all the walls in a very old house, and anything is possible. Hoping to get advice on the following high level topics as I also begin to scour the Cocoontech forums:
0. First and foremost the 'brain.' I'm completely out of date on what the gold standard is for the backbone of the system. I don't have the time I once did to monkey with something as complicated as CQC was in 2008. Wally looks cool with the ifttt integration that was just announced, and I bought the Canary and Revolv brains there their respective kickstarters. Is there anything out there that is becoming dominant in the DIY space? I'm looking to tie the entire house together. Lighting, HVAC (Nest likely), doorbell, smart locks, energy and lots of other things I'm forgetting.
1. Whole house lighting. This is a must. We did the last house using Centralite. I'd like very fine grained control over everything. Can people point me to the solutions that are considered popular for lighting control?
2. Energy monitoring - This is a huge item for me. I would like monitoring as granular as humanly possible. I would invest in lighting up every single outlet in the entire house.
3. A/V - This one I don't care that much about. We have sonos for audio, and although I enjoyed having the music pause when the phone rang with CQC, I'm completely ok with 0 A/V integration. TV we watch VERY little, and AppleTV gets it done there.
4. Everything else - Other than the big ones above, I'd like to be as forward compatible as possible. Long term, I'm the kind of person to tinker with integration everything from the coffee machine to the door bell to something like Luna mattress.
Any feedback is super appreciated. I know I could get most of this through a more detailed set of searches on Cocoon, but I figure this thread will be a jumping point to get me back into home automation and hours of searching on the forums. We break ground in June, and have about 6 months to complete the project, so timing is right to start thinking about everything from smart outlets to light bulbs etc.
Thanks!
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It's been years since I've posted here. In 2008 I did my first home automation project using CQC in a gut rehab.
I'm back and was hoping for some help with my next project! I'm about to start on a new gut rehab of our second home, and have gone 5 years stale on the industry. We're going to be opening all the walls in a very old house, and anything is possible. Hoping to get advice on the following high level topics as I also begin to scour the Cocoontech forums:
0. First and foremost the 'brain.' I'm completely out of date on what the gold standard is for the backbone of the system. I don't have the time I once did to monkey with something as complicated as CQC was in 2008. Wally looks cool with the ifttt integration that was just announced, and I bought the Canary and Revolv brains there their respective kickstarters. Is there anything out there that is becoming dominant in the DIY space? I'm looking to tie the entire house together. Lighting, HVAC (Nest likely), doorbell, smart locks, energy and lots of other things I'm forgetting.
1. Whole house lighting. This is a must. We did the last house using Centralite. I'd like very fine grained control over everything. Can people point me to the solutions that are considered popular for lighting control?
2. Energy monitoring - This is a huge item for me. I would like monitoring as granular as humanly possible. I would invest in lighting up every single outlet in the entire house.
3. A/V - This one I don't care that much about. We have sonos for audio, and although I enjoyed having the music pause when the phone rang with CQC, I'm completely ok with 0 A/V integration. TV we watch VERY little, and AppleTV gets it done there.
4. Everything else - Other than the big ones above, I'd like to be as forward compatible as possible. Long term, I'm the kind of person to tinker with integration everything from the coffee machine to the door bell to something like Luna mattress.
Any feedback is super appreciated. I know I could get most of this through a more detailed set of searches on Cocoon, but I figure this thread will be a jumping point to get me back into home automation and hours of searching on the forums. We break ground in June, and have about 6 months to complete the project, so timing is right to start thinking about everything from smart outlets to light bulbs etc.
Thanks!
Target