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Guys I'm looking at getting into some home automation my first task will be to automate our lighting. I want to be able to control lights in our hallways, kitchen, living room, and garage for starters. My ideal situation would be to have it sit up to where when a car pulls into a garage after a certain time lights in the house and garage would come on. Or I could have it after a certain time lights come on lets say 6pm daily eventually I will work the HVAC system into the equation. However I'm looking at two technologies Zigbee and Z-Wave which are wireless bases systems I keep seeinginformation on Z-Wave but I've not found much on Zigbee so my question for you all which technology is better Z-Wave or Zigbee. Also I've not seen much in the terms of wired systems whne I say wired I winder can this be done over CAt5 since my home is already wired for ethernet. so far I've read good things about the CentraLite wireless Jetstream system who has it here and what technology does it use? I think CentraLite uses Zigbee but I'm not sure