jobrunelle
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Hi,
I'd like to automate my new house that we are building right now... The only problem is that I'm new to all this and I don't know a single thing about electricity and other stuff like that.
Things I know :
The whole house has wired LEDs. I'd like to be able to control them ( on/off, dimmer, scenes, etc...) over smartphones, tablets, in-wall touch screens and avoid ( if possible) the wall switches ( we don't want to have 8 side by side switches...). After long hours of reading, I think I know we have to pass wires from all the leds to a (lots) module in a control panel ( structured media enclosure leviton style...) but I don't know what kind of module, how many, etc... We would also like to be able to use motion detector to close/open lights in different areas of the house.
The ventilation system has 4 zones and there is also a radiant floor system with 5 zones. We would like to control them over the same devices...
The audio system will be a 3 zones using Sonos devices with 2 hardwired speaker zones and an wifi zone ( we bought all the hardware already with the 3 sonos connect amp, 6 wired speakers, the bar, etc...) again we want the control over the same devices as always.
For the security, we will have central based system that we would also be able to activate or shutdown remotely. Plus, we would like to be able to control all the doors including the garage door.
In a near future, we would like to add sensors ( water leak, energy consumption, etc...) so we would like to build something that can evolve with our needs and knowledge.
We are not looking for a company based system ( crestron, control4, etc.) Not that they are not good, but we are looking for something cheaper that can do more or less the same thing.
I'm usually good with new technologies and geek stuff so I'm ready to learn/read/try but I just don't know from where to start.
Thank you very much
Jonathan
I'd like to automate my new house that we are building right now... The only problem is that I'm new to all this and I don't know a single thing about electricity and other stuff like that.
Things I know :
The whole house has wired LEDs. I'd like to be able to control them ( on/off, dimmer, scenes, etc...) over smartphones, tablets, in-wall touch screens and avoid ( if possible) the wall switches ( we don't want to have 8 side by side switches...). After long hours of reading, I think I know we have to pass wires from all the leds to a (lots) module in a control panel ( structured media enclosure leviton style...) but I don't know what kind of module, how many, etc... We would also like to be able to use motion detector to close/open lights in different areas of the house.
The ventilation system has 4 zones and there is also a radiant floor system with 5 zones. We would like to control them over the same devices...
The audio system will be a 3 zones using Sonos devices with 2 hardwired speaker zones and an wifi zone ( we bought all the hardware already with the 3 sonos connect amp, 6 wired speakers, the bar, etc...) again we want the control over the same devices as always.
For the security, we will have central based system that we would also be able to activate or shutdown remotely. Plus, we would like to be able to control all the doors including the garage door.
In a near future, we would like to add sensors ( water leak, energy consumption, etc...) so we would like to build something that can evolve with our needs and knowledge.
We are not looking for a company based system ( crestron, control4, etc.) Not that they are not good, but we are looking for something cheaper that can do more or less the same thing.
I'm usually good with new technologies and geek stuff so I'm ready to learn/read/try but I just don't know from where to start.
Thank you very much
Jonathan