upstatemike
Senior Member
The way things are evolving it looks like the future of home automation is likely going to involve a series of interconnected hubs of one sort or another and I'm wondering what the best practices are (or are going to be) for locating all of these hubs. I am speaking specifically of hubs that involve radios such as Lutron Caseta (or Radio RA2), Hue, Homeseer Z-Net, Elk Wireless Interface, Smartthings (or Hubitat), Wi-Fi access Point, and so on. Unlike the gear tucked away in a remote wiring/equipment closet like an ISY, Homeseer server, Blue Iris, Stargate, RasPi stuff, etc., these radio hubs need to be centrally located in the house and I'm starting to think a separate "hub closet" that is distinct from the traditional wiring closet may be warranted.
I wonder if it makes sense to carve out a corner of say the front hall closet to mount all of these radio based hubs and provide them with a small UPS and network switch to feed them? Is Home Automation going to demand a two closet approach going forward to better accommodate all of the the wireless equipment involved?
I wonder if it makes sense to carve out a corner of say the front hall closet to mount all of these radio based hubs and provide them with a small UPS and network switch to feed them? Is Home Automation going to demand a two closet approach going forward to better accommodate all of the the wireless equipment involved?