elk m1 lighting question

[antplugger]

Interested in peoples thoughts on the best way to simply control lighting (on/off). Essentially what I want to happen is have the kitchen lights turn on when I disarm the alarm at night.

I was thinking about hooking the light up to a 240v relay and driving it off the output relay extender board and connecting the kitchen light switch to the N//O input. That way I figure I can turn the light on/off form the kitchen or from some event from the M1 like disarming or the garage door opening.

Thanks for any input, thoughts or concerns

Cheers

 

[Steve]

Assuming from the post you have an M1. A relay can work but you can't dim plus you have to deal with proper ways to mount, etc. Why not just use a lighting technology like UPB? Sounds like you are down under and use 240V. I'm pretty sure there are 240V UPB products now.

 

[antplugger]

Thanks, we have the clipsal c-bus and X-10 but its runs into 3 figures whereas a relay is $12. With X10 do you know if you can detect whether the light is on or off ?

Thanks